Love Poems – Page 134
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Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar - The Onion
the child who threw away leaf after leaf of the many-coated onion, to get to the sweet heart, found in the end that he had thrown away the heart itself. -
Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar - The Sea-Shell
to the passionate lover, whose sighs come back to him on every breeze, all the world is like a murmuring sea-shell. -
Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar - The Stupid Kite
a kite, while devouring a skylark, complained, “Had I known that thy flesh was no sweeter than that of a sparrow I should have listened longer to thy delicious notes.” -
Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar - The Windmill
the exquisite painter Ko-tsu was often reproached by an industrious friend for his fits of idleness. At last he excused himself by saying, “You are a watermill—a windmill can grind only when the wind blows.” -
Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar - The Word
the first time the emperor Han heard a certain Word he said, “It is strange.” The second time he said, “It is divine.” The third time he said, “Let the speaker be put to death.” -
Sunday Evening in the Common
Look—on the topmost branches of the world / The blossoms of the myriad stars are thick; / Over the huddled rows of stone and brick … -
Like Music
Your body’s motion is like music; / Her stride ecstatical and bright / Moves to the rhythm of dumb music, … -
The Thunder-Shower
The lightning flashed, and lifted / The lids of heaven apart, / The fiery thunder rolled you … -
Alone
Ah, never in all my life / Have I ever fled away / From the loneliness that follows … -
Nirvana
Sleep on—i lie at heaven’s high oriels, / Over the stars that murmur as they go / Lighting your lattice-window far below. …
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