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I Shall Forget You Presently  (by: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950))
I shall forget you presently, my dear,
So make the most of this, your little day,
Your little month, your little half a year,
Ere I forget, or die, or move away...
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My Lady's Grave  (by: Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848))
The linnet in the rocky dells,
The moor-lark in the air,
The bee among the heather bells
That hide my lady fair:
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Scent Of Irises  (by: D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930))
A faint, sickening scent of irises
Persists all morning. Here in a jar on the table
A fine proud spike of purple irises...
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To Lucasta Going Beyond The Seas  (by: Richard Lovelace (1618 - 1657))
If to be absent were to be
Away from thee;
Or that when I am gone
You or I were alone;
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To Lucasta Going To The Wars  (by: Richard Lovelace (1618 - 1657))
Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind,
That from the nunnery
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Farewell Poems Books

Triumph of Death, The  (by: William Shakespeare (1546 - 1616))
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
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Why I Write Not Of Love  (by: Benjamin Jonson (1573 - 1637))
Some act of Love's bound to rehearse,
I thought to bind him in my verse;
Which when he felt, Away, quoth he,
Can poets hope to fetter me?
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Winter's Tale, A  (by: D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930))
Yesterday the fields were only grey with scattered snow,
And now the longest grass-leaves hardly emerge;
Yet her deep footsteps mark the snow, and go
On towards the pines at the hills’ white verge.
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