Longing by Matthew Arnold
Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again! For so the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day…
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A Poem 4 Sweetheart
A sweetheart is one of God’s greatest creations. Whose love brings to the heart. A sweet sensation. She makes everyday worth living. Her love is always there for the giving. A love that makes sorrow take flight. That lights up the heart. Like fireflies…
Grown Up by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?
I threw my arms about those shoulders by Joseph Brodsky
I threw my arms about those shoulders, glancing at what emerged behind that back, and saw a chair pushed slightly forward, merging now with the lighted wall…
Good Hours by Robert Frost
I had for my winter evening walk– No one at all with whom to talk, But I had the cottages in a row Up to their shining eyes in snow…
A Pinch of Salt by Robert Graves
When a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain…
Misgivings by Herman Melville
When ocean-clouds over inland hills Sweep storming in late autumn brown, And horror the sodden valley fills, And the spire falls crashing in the town, I muse upon my country’s ills…
