The city mouse lives in a hou...

The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

Hope dead lives nevermore,
N...

Hope dead lives nevermore,
No, not in heaven.

Why does the sea moan evermor...

Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.

Lie still, lie still, my brea...

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.

Better by far you should forge...

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

Hope is like a harebell trembl...

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.

My heart is like a singing bir...

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daГЇs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come,

Lie still, lie still, my break...

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.

Yet come to me in dreams, that...

Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live My very life again though cold in death; Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long ago

Love loves for ever,
And ...

Love loves for ever,
And finds a sort of joy in pain,
And gives with nought to take again,
And loves too well to end in vain:
Is the gain small then?
Love laughs at 'never',
Outlives our life, exceeds the span
Appointed to mere mortal man:
All which love is and does and can
Is all in all then.

My life is like a faded leaf,<...

My life is like a faded leaf,
My harvest dwindled to a husk:
Truly my life is void and brief
And tedious in the barren dusk;
My life is like a frozen thing,
No bud nor greenness can I see:
Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring;
O Jesus, rise in me.

I have no wit, no words, no te...

I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears;
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief
No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, quicken me.

Rest, rest at the heart's core...

Rest, rest at the heart's core . . . till joy shall overtake.

Because the birthday of my lif...

Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

A pin has a head, but has no h...

A pin has a head, but has no hair

January cold and desolate;

January cold and desolate;
February dripping wet;
March wind ranges;
April changes;
Birds sing in tune
To flowers of May,
And sunny June
Brings longest day;
In scorched July
The storm-clouds fly,
Lightning-torn;
August bears corn,
September fruit;
In rough October
Earth must disrobe her;
Stars fall and shoot
In keen November;
And night is long
And cold is strong
In bleak December.

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Be the green grass above me, w...

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

Does the road wind up-hill all...

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

My heart is breaking for a lit...

My heart is breaking for a little love

I lock my door upon myself, An...

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?