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They wondered why the fruit had been forbidden:
It taught them nothing new
They hid their pride,
But did not listen much when they were chidden:

Ever,
Stir and
The reeds and
By the river:

HY so pale and wan, fond lover
Prithee, why so pale
Will, when looking well can't move her,   Looking ill prevail
Prithee, why so pale

American
Never remove their
When investigating
In other people's flats

O why doth Delia credit so her glass,
Gazing her beauty deign'd her by the skies,
And doth not rather look on him (alas) Whose state best shows the force of murd'ring eyes
The broken tops of lofty trees declare The fury of a mercy-w...

Uncle Rob says:
Once the daisies all were white,
Till a baby
Ate his supper down one night,

O dearest, canst thou tell me why The rose should be so pale
And why the azure violet Should wither in the vale
And why the lark should in the cloud So sorrowfully sing
And why from loveliest balsam-buds A scent of death should spring

Why art thou chang'd
O Phaon
tell me why
Love flies reproach, when passion feels decay;

Because we rage inside the old boundaries, like a young girl leaving the Church, scared of her parents
Because we all dream of saving the shaggy, dung-caked buffalo, shielding the herd with our bodies
Because grief unites us, like the lo...

A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends

Some act of Love's bound to reherse,
I thought to bind him, in my verse:
Which when he felt,
Away (quoth he)Can Poets hope to fetter me

1in the fourth book of the Peloponnesian
Thucydides tells among other thingsthe story of his unsuccessful expeditionamong long speeches of chiefsbattles sieges plaguedense net of intrigues of diplomatic endeavoursthe episode is like a pinin a...