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I've been waiting here since 9 o'clock.Why don't you want to come?
Can't go away , stuck under rock,
I wait, becoming numb.
I see you going under the moon,
To our date you're late as ever.

I have been thinking of the difference between water and the waves on it
Rising, water's still water, falling back, it is water, will you give me a hint how to tell them apart
Because someone has made up the word"wave," do I ha...

His heart to me, was a place of palaces and pinnacles and shining towers;
I saw it then as we see things in dreams,—I do not remember how long I slept;
I remember the tress, and the high, white walls, and how the sun was always on the to...

Since I've been in jail the world has turned around the sun ten times And if you ask the earth, it will say: "It's not worth mentioning, a microscopic time
" And if you ask me,
I will say: "It's ten years of my life
&...

We have been friends together, In sunshine and in shade; Since first beneath the chestnut-trees In infancy we played
But coldness dwells within thy heart, A cloud is on thy brow; We have been friends together— Shall a light word part us now

My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it

I have been pierced by the arrow of love,what shall I do
I can neither live, nor can I die
Listen ye to my ceaseless outpourings,
I have peace neither by night, nor by day