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…..To a Butterfly by William Wordsworth I’ve watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless!–not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you [...]

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Fidelity by D.H. Lawrence Man and woman are like the earth, that brings forth flowers in summer, and love, but underneath is rock. Older than flowers, older than ferns, older than foraminiferae, older than plasm altogether is the soul underneath. And when, throughout all the wild chaos of love slowly a gem forms, in the [...]

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Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV, 1930 by Georgia O’Keeffe Pablo Neruda, excerpt from 100 Love Sonnets I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I [...]

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Not really appropriate for my fiancé and I as we gave up cigarettes together the day we got engaged. Still its a sweet poem. Giving Up Smoking by Wendy Cope There’s not a Shakespeare’s sonnet nor a Beethoven quartet that’s easier to like than you nor harder to forget You think it sounds extravagant I [...]

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