What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst, A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst, Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour, The first swete Dropp of our long Showre.
Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers, How justly doth a lie Draw on … - Charles Godfrey Leland
Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers, How justly doth a lie Draw on …
- Charles Godfrey Leland
Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy… - Charles Godfrey Leland
Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy…
Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain; But all through Love in time is healed again. - Charles Godfrey Leland
Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain; But all through Love in time is healed again.
Thought is the measure of life. - Charles Godfrey Leland
Thought is the measure of life.
The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won. - Charles Godfrey Leland
The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.
The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men. - Charles Godfrey Leland
The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.
To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in. - Charles Godfrey Leland
To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
When in God thou believest, near God thou wilt certainly be. - Charles Godfrey Leland
When in God thou believest, near God thou wilt certainly be.
If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world have never been. - Charles Godfrey Leland
If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world have never been.
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