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...How grow the nights without which we could not
close our eyes, and before which a cruel fate comes first
to sadden us! Arise, and let us breathe an instant ere
the breath of the morning stirs, for, very long, alas!
will this Dawn breathe when we no longer breathe!...Read more of this...

...ilent; but a sound 
Of Gawain ever coming, and this lay-- 
Which Pelleas had heard sung before the Queen, 
And seen her sadden listening--vext his heart, 
And marred his rest--`A worm within the rose.' 

`A rose, but one, none other rose had I, 
A rose, one rose, and this was wondrous fair, 
One rose, a rose that gladdened earth and sky, 
One rose, my rose, that sweetened all mine air-- 
I cared not for the thorns; the thorns were there. 

`One rose, a rose to gather by and b...Read more of this...

...class=stanza>To thee, Sennuccio, fain would I declare,To sadden life, what wrongs, what woes I find:Still glow my wonted flames; and, though resign'dTo Laura's fickle will, no change I bear.All humble now, then haughty is my fair;Now meek, then proud; now pitying, then unkind:Softness and tenderness now sw...Read more of this...

...There is no woman living who draws breath 
So sad as I, though all things sadden her. 
There is not one upon life's weariest way 
Who is weary as I am weary of all but death. 
Toward whom I look as looks the sunflower 
All day with all his whole soul toward the sun; 
While in the sun's sight I make moan all day, 
And all night on my sleepless maiden bed. 
Weep and call out on death, O Love, and thee, 
That thou or he would take me...Read more of this...

...and lamentation
Reach us in the Blessed Islands;
Cries of anguish from the living,
Calling back their friends departed,
Sadden us with useless sorrow.
Therefore have we come to try you;
No one knows us, no one heeds us.
We are but a burden to you,
And we see that the departed
Have no place among the living.
"Think of this, O Hiawatha!
Speak of it to all the people,
That henceforward and forever
They no more with lamentations
Sadden the souls of the departed
In the Islands of ...Read more of this...

...s yet no language—no wisdom thy tongue? 
 Oh, see! the light wavers, and sinking, bath flung 
 On the wall forms that sadden. 
 
 Wake! awake! evil spirits perhaps may presume 
 To haunt thy holy dwelling; 
 Pale ghosts are, perhaps, stealing into the room— 
 Oh, would that the lamp were relit! with the gloom 
 These fearful thoughts dispelling. 
 Thou hast told us our parents lie sleeping beneath 
 The grass, in a churchyard lonely: 
 Now, thine eyes have no motio...Read more of this...

...ng, doubting, dying,
The silvered globule seems a glistening tear.

But Nature lends her mirror of illusion
To win from saddening scenes our age-dimmed eyes,
And misty day-dreams blend in sweet confusion
The wintry landscape and the summer skies.

So when the iron portal shuts behind us,
And life forgets us in its noise and whirl,
Visions that shunned the glaring noonday find us,
And glimmering starlight shows the gates of pearl.

I come not here your morning hour to sadden,
...Read more of this...

...'s eyes: 
This too the women who attired her head, 
To please her, dwelling on his boundless love, 
Told Enid, and they saddened her the more: 
And day by day she thought to tell Geraint, 
But could not out of bashful delicacy; 
While he that watched her sadden, was the more 
Suspicious that her nature had a taint. 

At last, it chanced that on a summer morn 
(They sleeping each by either) the new sun 
Beat through the blindless casement of the room, 
And heated the strong wa...Read more of this...

...each stain! 

"My purpose went not to develop 
 Such insight in Earthland; 
Such potent appraisements affront me, 
 And sadden my reign! 

"Why loosened I olden control here 
 To mechanize skywards, 
Undeeming great scope could outshape in 
 A globe of such grain? 

"Man's mountings of mind-sight I checked not, 
 Till range of his vision 
Has topped my intent, and found blemish 
 Throughout my domain. 

"He holds as inept his own soul-shell - 
 My deftest achievement - 
Conte...Read more of this...

...your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Of This and That endeavor and dispute;
Better be merry with the fruitful Grape
Than sadden after none, or bitter, fruit. 

XLIII.
You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house;
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. 

XLIV.
And lately, by the Tavern Door agape,
Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape
Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder; and
He bid me tas...Read more of this...

...ong, how long, in infinite Pursuit
Of This and That endeavour and dispute?
Better be merry with the fruitful Grape
Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

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You know, my Friends, how long since in my House
For a new Marriage I did make Carouse:
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.

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For "IS" and "IS-NOT" though with Rule and Line,
And "UP-AND-DOWN" without, I could define,
I yet in all I only cared to know,
Was never dee...Read more of this...

...the song in Tauber’s mellifluous tenor

Haunt my nights and days, make me tremble when I hear

Your voice on the phone, sadden me when I can’t make into your smile

The pucker of your lips, the gleam in your eye.



The day we met is with me still, you asked directions

And on the way we chatted. You told me how you’d left

Lancashire for Leeds, went to the same TC as me, even liked poetry

Both were looking for an ‘interesting evening class’

Instead we found each other.

Yo...Read more of this...

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