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by
Kobayashi Issa
I'm going out
I'm going out,
flies, so relax,
make love.
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by
Richard Brautigan
Color As Beginning
Forget love
I want to die
in your yellow hair
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by
Kobayashi Issa
Having slept, the cat gets up
Having slept, the cat gets up,
yawns, goes out
to make love.
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by
Henry Van Dyke
Katrina's Sun-Dial
Hours fly,
Flowers die:
New days,
New ways:
Pass by!
Love stays.
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by
Sappho
Without Warning
Without warning
as a whirlwind
swoops on an oak
Love shakes my heart
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by
Robert Herrick
LOVE, WHAT IT IS
Love is a circle, that doth restless move
In the same sweet eternity of Love.
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by
Robert Herrick
AMBITION
In man, ambition is the common'st thing;
Each one by nature loves to be a king.
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by
Matsuo Basho
Staying at an inn
Staying at an inn
where prostitutes are also sleeping--
bush clover and the moon.
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by
James A Emanuel
Louis Armstrong And Duke Ellington
Satchmo's warm burlap,
Duke's cool cashmere: fine fabrics
make your love "Come here!"
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by
Bliss Carman
ON LOVE
Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all
Is, when love's honey has a dash of gall.
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by
Hilaire Belloc
Time Cures All
It was my shame, and now it is my boast,
That I have loved you rather more than most.
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by
Richard Brautigan
Just Because
Just because
people love your mind,
doesn't mean they
have to have
your body,
too.
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by
James A Emanuel
John Coltrane
"Love Supreme," JA-A-Z train,
tops. prompt lightning-express, but
made ALL local stops.
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by
Dorothy Parker
Two-Volume Novel
The sun's gone dim, and
The moon's turned black;
For I loved him, and
He didn't love back.
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by
Robert Herrick
WRITING
When words we want, Love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Sometimes with the Heart
Sometimes with the Heart
Seldom with the Soul
Scarcer once with the Might
Few -- love at all.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Love is done when Love's begun,
Love is done when Love's begun,
Sages say,
But have Sages known?
Truth adjourn your Boon
Without Day.
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by
Walt Whitman
Thou Reader.
THOU reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,
Therefore for thee the following chants.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Distance -- is not the Realm of Fox
Distance -- is not the Realm of Fox
Nor by Relay of Bird
Abated -- Distance is
Until thyself, Beloved.
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by
Emily Dickinson
The incidents of love
The incidents of love
Are more than its Events --
Investment's best Expositor
Is the minute Per Cents --
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by
Nizar Qabbani
Every Time I Kiss You
Every time I kiss you
After a long separation
I feel
I am putting a hurried love letter
In a red mailbox.
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by
Emily Dickinson
Love -- is anterior to Life --
Love -- is anterior to Life --
Posterior -- to Death --
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth --
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by
Emily Dickinson
Love's stricken "why"
Love's stricken "why"
Is all that love can speak --
Built of but just a syllable
The hugest hearts that break.
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by
Dorothy Parker
Post-Graduate
Hope it was that tutored me,
And Love that taught me more;
And now I learn at Sorrow's knee
The self-same lore.
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by
Emily Dickinson
The immortality she gave
The immortality she gave
We borrowed at her Grave --
For just one Plaudit famishing,
The Might of Human love --
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