Love - Musings of a Reader

I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz, or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries the light of…

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Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day? by William Shakespeare

Musings of a ReaderJuly 15, 2024

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance,…

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Look! This Is Love, by Rumi

Musings of a ReaderJuly 15, 2024

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, …

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I Carry Your Heart With Me, by E. E. Cummings

Musings of a ReaderJuly 15, 2024

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) …

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And Still I Rise, by Maya Angelou

Musings of a ReaderJuly 15, 2024

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room.…

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Pledge, by Amrita Pritam

Musings of a ReaderJuly 15, 2024

Engraved with lines of agonyMy palm enshrines a pledge:The line of faith outstripsThe line of years. You enquireHow long my love will live.Teach not love the habit of speech,For who has yet learnt how to hear?Love prospers without the wealth of words. My breath is at the mercy of my body…

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