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When I consider, pro and con,
What things my love is built upon --
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Whose love is given over-well
Shall look on Helen's face in hell,
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Hope it was that tutored me,
And Love that taught me more;
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I met a man the other day-
A kindly man, and serious-
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The sun's gone dim, and
The moon's turned black;
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Oh, I'd been better dying,
Oh, I was slow and sad;
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New love, new love, where are you to lead me?
All along a narrow way that marks a crooked line.
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They say He was a serious child,
And quiet in His ways;
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"Then we will have tonight!" we said.
"Tomorrow- may we not be dead?"
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Now this must be the sweetest place
From here to heaven's end;
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"So surely is she mine," you say, and turn
Your quick and steady mind to harder things-
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Her mind lives in a quiet room,
A narrow room, and tall,
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Into love and out again,
Thus I went, and thus I go.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned;
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Let another cross his way-
She's the one will do the weeping!
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I think that I shall never know
Why I am thus, and I am so.
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Oh, ponder, friend, the porcupine;
Refresh your recollection,
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The Lives and Times of John Keats,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, and
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Accursed from their birth they be
Who seek to find monogamy,
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When I am old, and comforted,
And done with this desire,
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Should they whisper false of you.
Never trouble to deny;
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Although I work, and seldom cease,
At Dumas pere and Dumas fils,
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Go I must along my ways
Though my heart be ragged,
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Should Heaven send me any son,
I hope he's not like Tennyson.
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Carlyle combined the lit'ry life
With throwing teacups at his wife,
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Authors and actors and artists and such
Never know nothing, and never know much.
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Upon the work of Walter Landor
I am unfit to write with candor.
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I think, no matter where you stray,
That I shall go with you a way.
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Why is it, when I am in Rome,
I'd give an eye to be at home,
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Who call him spurious and shoddy
Shall do it o'er my lifeless body.
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If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
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There's little in taking or giving,
There's little in water or wine;
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In the pathway of the sun,
In the footsteps of the breeze,
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My answers are inadequate
To those demanding day and date
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I'm sick of embarking in dories
Upon an emotional sea.
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If I were mild, and I were sweet,
And laid my heart before your feet,
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If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide;
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This level reach of blue is not my sea;
Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,
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"And if he's gone away," said she,
"Good riddance, if you're asking me.
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Never love a simple lad,
Guard against a wise,
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There still are kindly things for me to know,
Who am afraid to dream, afraid to feel-
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Unto seventy years and seven,
Hide your double birthright well-
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"It's queer," she said; "I see the light
As plain as I beheld it then,
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When I admit neglect of Gissing,
They say I don't know what I'm missing.
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Back of my back, they talk of me,
Gabble and honk and hiss;
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What time the gifted lady took
Away from paper, pen, and book,
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There was one a-riding grand
On a tall brown mare,
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The pure and worthy Mrs. Stowe
Is one we all are proud to know
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It costs me never a stab nor squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm.
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Oh, when I flung my heart away,
The year was at its fall.
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Dear dead Victoria
Rotted cosily;
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When I was bold, when I was bold-
And that's a hundred years!-
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This I say, and this I know:
Love has seen the last of me.
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