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Third Sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I lift mine eyes, and all the windows blaze
With forms of Saints and holy men who died,
Here martyred and hereafter glorified;
And the great Rose upon its leaves displays
Christ's Triumph, and the angelic roundelays,
With splendor upon splendor multiplied;
And Beatrice, again at Dante's side,
No more rebukes, but smiles her words of praise.
And then the organ sounds, and unseen choirs
Sing the old Latin hymns of peace and love
And benedictions of the Holy Ghost;
And the melodious bells among the spires
O'er all the house-tops and through heaven above
Proclaim the elevation of the Host!

(September 1866)

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Imitation by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

I saw the Death, and she was seating
By quiet entrance at my own home,
I saw the doors were opened in my tomb,
And there, and there my hope was a-flitting
I'll die, and traces of my past
In days of future will be never sighted,
Look of my eyes will never be delighted
By dear look, in my existence last.

Farewell the somber world, where, precipice above,
My gloomy road was a-streaming,
Where life for me was never cheering,
Where I was loving, having not to love!
The dazzling heavens' azure curtain,
Beloved hills, the brook's enchanting dance,
You, mourn -- the inspiration's chance,
You, peaceful shades of wilderness, uncertain,
And all -- farewell, farewell at once.

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The Single Hound, CXVI by Emily Dickinson

LOVE reckons by itself alone,
�As large as I� relate the Sun
To one who never felt it blaze,
Itself is all the like it has.

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The Barrier by Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Midnight wooed the Morning Star,
And prayed her: 'Love come nearer;
Your swinging coldly there afar
To me but makes you dearer.'

The Morning Star was pale with dole
As said she, low replying:
'Oh, lover mine, soul of my soul,
For you I too am sighing.'

'But One ordained when we were born,
In spite of love's insistence,
That night might only view the Morn
Adoring at a distance.'

But as she spoke, the jealous Sun
Across the heavens panted;
'Oh, whining fools,' he cried, 'have done,
Your wishes shall be granted.'

He hurled his flaming lances far;
The twain stood unaffrighted,
And Midnight and the Morning Star
Lay down in death united.

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Respectability by Robert Browning

I.

Dear, had the world in its caprice
Deigned to proclaim 'I know you both,
Have recognized your plighted troth,
Am sponsor for you: live in peace!'---
How many precious months and years
Of youth had passed, that speed so fast,
Before we found it out at last,
The world, and what it fears?

II.

How much of priceless life were spent
With men that every virtue decks,
And women models of their sex,
Society's true ornament,---
Ere we dared wander, nights like this,
Thro' wind and rain, and watch the Seine,
And feel the Boulevart break again
To warmth and light and bliss?

III.

I know! the world proscribes not love;
Allows my finger to caress
Your lips' contour and downiness,
Provided it supply a glove.
The world's good word!---the Institute!
Guizot receives Montalembert!
Eh? Down the court three lampions flare:
Put forward your best foot!

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