NatureThe patient Pan,
Drunken with nectar,
Sleeps or feigns slumber,
Drowsily humming
Music to the march of time.
This poor tooting, creaking cricket,
Pan, half asleep, rolling over
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Far ends of tired days;
It half endears the abstinence,
And pain is missed in praise. As flavors cheer retarded guests
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The solemn contract of a life
Was ratified this way. The wealth might disappoint,…
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I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity…
A LadyAmy LowellYou are beautiful and faded
Like an old opera tune
Played upon a harpsichord;
Or like the sun-flooded silks
Of an eighteenth-century boudoir.
In your eyes
Smoulder the fallen…
To John KeatsGreat master! Boyish, sympathetic man!
Whose orbed and ripened genius lightly hung
From life's slim, twisted tendril and there swung
In crimson-sphered completeness; guardian…
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