Nero CaroZiv Poems

Let me not count the clock that tells the time,
Let me not sink as the brave day sinks in a hideous night;
When I watch the pale hue violet past its prime,
And sable curls all silvered over with head white;
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Despair not; relent not, like the lofty reeds on a Bay Shore bending
In low sandy fields by the rough foaming sea,
Swaying and praying in harsh shrieking wind without a cease;
Without safty; no shelter or foreseen ending
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When it will be my time to lie down with my ancestors
Mourn me not; since it is the wish of my creator
I will go as a virtuous man passes mildly away,
And I shall whisper to my jaded soul to go
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Have you not ever be amazed at the fall of a crimson leaf
How your heart feels a languid, gnawing suffocating grief
At summer decline watch the leaf as it falls down in slow spiral motion
How your heart rebels against these saddening emotions
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As I gaze upon her rose-wreathed locks of hair,
And watch her beguiling joyful smile;
It seems as I have drunk the very air
Her breath perfumes the long while:
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This night is so starry, divine over a busy street lane
I am waiting for beloved, sweet Madeleine
Out of this sea of faces like a phantom of delight she will appear
I am so anxious, I am so expecting and jaded for my dear
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I have desired with such earnest to go
Where springs of my childhood never fail,
To fields of lush sprouts of flowers and flies and birds in jubilant hail,
And few sycamore and fig trees along in the sun blow.
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Red roofs are shining over white ivory walls with first spring treat
While brave birds of song twitter and sigh as they fly,
With a windy April grace I stood waiting in a street
As little clouds pass by.
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Oh love, my beloved, have you ever contemplated
Of leaving me? A thought so un natural and over rated
Since I have sown you so completely and so wide totally filling your sight
That you will find it everywhere in the day and in the night
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Summer night, with a moon curving large like a flower of gold,
The sky is still, starry and deep, calm blue;
God created the moon for the night sky to hold,
And so I was born for you.
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