Our wearier spirit faints, Vexed in the world's employ: His soul was of the saints; And art to him was joy.
Lionel Johnson
While death and darkness girdle meI grope for immortality.
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Come! Our world is done: For all the witchery of the world is fled, And lost all wanton wisdom long since won.
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Vanquished in life, his death By beauty made amends: The passing of his breath Won his defeated ends.
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I fight thee, in the Holy Name! Yet, what thou dost, is what God saith: Tempter! Should I escape thy flame, Thou wilt have helped my soul from Death: The second Death, that never dies, That cannot die, when time is dead: Live Death, wherein the lost soul cries, Eternally uncomforted.
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Now from the broken tower, what solemn bell still tolls, Mourning what piteous death? Answer, O saddened souls! Who mourn the death of beauty and the death of grace.
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The winds are sometimes sad to me, The starry spaces, full of fear; Mine is the sorrow on the sea, And mine the sigh of places drear. Some players upon plaintive strings Publish their wistfulness abroad; I have not spoken of these things, Save to one man, and unto God.
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What comes now? The earth awaits What fierce wonder from the skies? Thunder, trampling through the night? Morning, with illustrious eyes? Morning, from the springs of light: Thunder, round Heaven's opening gates.
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Through thee, the gracious Muses turn, To Furies, O mine Enemy! And all the things of beauty burn With flames of evil ecstasy. Because of thee, the land of dreams Becomes a gathering place of fears: Until tormented slumber seems One vehemence of useless tears.
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King, tried in fires of woe! Men hunger for thy grace: And through the night I go, Loving thy mournful face. Yet, when the city sleeps; When all the cries are still: The stars and heavenly deeps Work out a perfect will.
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Which are more full of fate: The stars; or those sad eyes? Which are more still and great: Those brows; or the dark skies?
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