I The Paragon
When I behold the skies aloft
Passing the pageantry of dreams,
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I, trusting that the truly sweet
Would still be sweetly found the true,
Sang, darkling, taught by heavenly heat,
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Amid the mystic fields of Love
I wander'd, and beheld a grove.
Breathlessly still was part, and part
Was breathing with an easy heart;
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Proem
‘Many speak wisely, some inerrably:
Witness the beast who talk'd that should have bray'd,
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‘What, no crown won,
These two whole years,
By man of fortitude beyond his peers,
In Thrace or Macedon?’
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‘And even our women,’ lastly grumbles Ben,
‘Leaving their nature, dress and talk like men!’
A damsel, as our train stops at Five Ashes,
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Felicity!
Who ope'st to none that knocks, yet, laughing weak,
Yield'st all to Love that will not seek,
And who, though won, wilt droop and die,
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Preludes.
I The Impossibility
Lo, Love's obey'd by all. 'Tis right
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I
Saint Valentine’s Day
Well dost thou, Love, thy solemn Feast to hold
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I Her sons pursue the butterflies,
Her baby daughter mocks the doves
With throbbing coo; in his fond eyes
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