Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Iii: Gods And False Gods: Lix
THE HAUNTED HOUSEHow loud the storm blew all that bitter night!The loosened ivy tapping on the paneWoke me and woke, again and yet again,Till I was..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Iii: Gods And False Gods: Liv
HE DESIRES THE IMPOSSIBLEIf it were possible the fierce sun should,Standing in heaven unloved, companionless,Enshrinèd be in some white--bosomed..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxxviii
TO ONE NOW ESTRANGEDWhy did you love me? Was it not enoughThat the world loved you, all the world and I?Or was your heart of so sublime a stuffThat..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxxvi
FEAR HAS CAST OUT LOVE'Tis not that love is less or sorrow moreThan in the days when first these things began.Even then you doubted, and our hearts..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxxv
THE SAME CONTINUEDOld memories are sweet, but these are newAnd smart like wounds yet green. But one there isWhich, for the cause that it was dear to..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxxix
FAREWELL TO JULIETJuliet, farewell. I would not be forgivenEven if I forgave. These words must beThe last between us two in Earth or Heaven,The last..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxxiv
THE SAME CONTINUEDYes, Spring is come, but joy alas is gone,--Gone ere we knew it, while our foolish eyes,Which should have watched its motions every..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxxiii
REMINDING HER OF A PROMISEOh, Juliet, we have quarrelled with our fate,And fate has struck us. Wherefore do we cry?We prayed for liberty, and now too..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxxii
EXHORTING HER TO PATIENCEWhy do we fret at the inconstancyOf our frail hearts, which cannot always love?Time rushes onward, and we mortals moveLike..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxxi
TO ONE WHO LOVED HIMI cannot love you, love, as you love me,In singleness of soul, and faith untried:I have no faith in any destiny,In any Heaven..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxx
THE RELIGION OF LOVESo thou but love me, dear, with thy whole heartWhat care I for the rest, for good or ill?What for the peace of soul good deeds..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxviii
IN ANSWER TO A QUESTIONWhy should I hate you, love, or why despiseFor that last proof of tenderness you gave?The battle is not always to the..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxvii
ASKING THE FULFILMENT OF HER LOVEI ask for love who famished am in plenty,Not scorning the dear manna of your tearsBut being vexed with that too..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxvi
THE SAME--A CHRISTMAS SONNETSince thou hast given me these, Juliet, given me these,There have been tidings told of a great joy,Of peace on Earth..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxv
THE SAME CONTINUEDGive me thy kiss, Juliet, give me thy kiss!I with my body worship thee and vowSuch service to thy needs as man can do.I ask no..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxix
TO HER WHO WOULD COMFORT HIMI did not ask your pity, dear. Your zealI know. It cannot cure me of my woes.And you, in your sweet happiness, who..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxiv
THE SAME CONTINUEDGive me thy soul, Juliet, give me thy soul!I am a bitter sea, which drinketh inThe sweetness of all waters, and so thine.Thou, like..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxiii
ASKING FOR HER HEARTGive me thy heart, Juliet, give me thy heart!I have a need of it, an absolute need,Because my own heart has thus long been dead.I..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xxii
ON THE NATURE OF LOVEYou ask my love. What shall my love then be ?A hope, an aspiration, a desire?The soul's eternal charter writ in fireUpon the..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xlviii
THE SAME CONTINUEDI think there never was a dearer woman,A better, kinder, truer than you were,A gentler spirit more divinely humanThan yours with..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xlvii
THE SAME CONTINUEDI see you, Juliet, still, with your straw hatLoaded with vines, and with your dear pale face,On which those thirty years so lightly..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xlvi
THE SAME CONTINUEDThrice happy fools! What wisdom shall we learnIn this world or the next, if next there be,More deep, more full, more worthy our..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xlv
THE SAME CONTINUEDDo you remember how I laughed at youIn the Beaulieu woods, and how I made my peace?It was your thirtieth birthday, and you..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xlix
THE SAME CONTINUEDA ``woman with a past.'' What happier omenCould heart desire for mistress or for friend?Phoenix of friends, and most divine..
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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xliv
THE SAME CONTINUEDYet we shall live without love, as some liveWithout their limbs, their senses, maimed or deaf.We even shall forget love, and shall..
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