By Andrew Marvell Had we but world enough and time,This coyness, lady, were no crime.We would sit down, and think which wayTo walk, and pass our long love’s day.Thou by […]
By John Donne I wonder, by my troth, what thou and IDid, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?Or snorted we in the […]
By William Shakespeare My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be […]
By William Shakespeare 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 […]
By Edmund Spenser One day I wrote her name upon the strand,But came the waves and washed it away:Again I wrote it with a second hand,But came the tide, and […]
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I WAS STILL A thief when I met Arun and though I was only fifteen I was an experienced and fairly successful hand.Arun was watching the wrestlers when I approached him. […]
by Charles Lamb CHILDREN love to listen to stories about their elders, when they were children; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great-uncle or grandame, whom they never saw. […]
In Madurai,city of temples and poets,who sang of cities and temples,every summera river dries to a tricklein the sand,baring the sand ribs,straw and women’s hairclogging the watergatesat the rusty barsunder […]
LIKE a huge Python, winding round and roundThe rugged trunk, indented deep with scars,Up to its very summit near the stars,A creeper climbs, in whose embraces boundNo other tree could […]
