Monday, May 7, 2007

The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity He who desires...
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The Garden Of Love

"I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And “Thou shalt not” writ over the door; So I turned to the...
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Saturday, May 5, 2007

The Wanderer

The solitary looks for the favor of fortune, For serene waters and a welcoming haven. But his lot is to plough the wintry seas. An exile's fate is decreed for him. Each dawn stirs old sorrows. The slaughter of lord, kin, village,...
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Friday, May 4, 2007

Circle Chant

Circling circling circling round The sea is the sky is the sun is the ground And the circle within and the circle unseen Where the unknown is known and the future has been ~unknownAlso try this free pdf e-books:Howard Phillips Lovecraft...
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More And More By Margaret Atwood

More and more frequently the edges of me dissolve and I become a wish to assimilate the world, including you, if possible through the skin like a cool plant's tricks with oxygen and live by a harmless green burning. I would not...
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The Bridge By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour, And the moon rose o'er the city, Behind the dark church-tower. I saw her bright reflection In the waters under me, Like a golden goblet falling And sinking...
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

The Old Chimaeras Old Receipts By Robert Louis Stevenson

The old Chimaeras, old receipts For making "happy land," The old political beliefs Swam close before my hand. The grand old communistic myths In a middle state of grace, Quite dead, but not yet gone to Hell, And walking for a space, Quite...
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