For frequent tears have run
The colors from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head.
(Sonnet 08 - What Can I Give Thee Back, O Liberal)
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The silver answer rang, -- Not Death, but Love.
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Then, drawing breath,
She struggled for her ordinary calm
And missed it rather, told me not to shrink,
As if she had told me not to lie or swear, --
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As long as I deserved it.
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In this fair world of God's.
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And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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