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Random poem: Poems (E. L. F.)/A love-letter
For works with similar titles, see A love-letter.
A LOVE-LETTER
I doat on all the whispered tones
That tell my heart of thee,
And everything that bears a trace
Of what thou art to me:
Dearer than aught this earth could give,
For thee I'd die—for thee I live.
That tell my heart of thee,
And everything that bears a trace
Of what thou art to me:
Dearer than aught this earth could give,
For thee I'd die—for thee I live.
There's not a flower that e'er I knew
Was lovely in thy sight,
And not a star that ever shone
Beneath the shades of night,
But I would love and cherish ever,
That heart and soul might live together.
Was lovely in thy sight,
And not a star that ever shone
Beneath the shades of night,
But I would love and cherish ever,
That heart and soul might live together.
There's not a look, or tone of thine,
Untreasured in my heart;
Thy smiles and blushes, too, are mine—
Of memory a part.
Oh! think not there could ever be
A thought of mine unshared by thee.
Untreasured in my heart;
Thy smiles and blushes, too, are mine—
Of memory a part.
Oh! think not there could ever be
A thought of mine unshared by thee.
The deep emotions of that soul,
Flushing the tell-tale cheek
With thoughts of high and holy things,
That words were faint to speak.
Oh! I could gaze each hour away,
Reading thy features' speaking play.
Flushing the tell-tale cheek
With thoughts of high and holy things,
That words were faint to speak.
Oh! I could gaze each hour away,
Reading thy features' speaking play.
Or I would hush, in gentle calm,
Thy mind with words of song,
Whose tones could wake the melody
Of worshipped days now gone;
And I would be in soul with thee,
Amid that speaking melody.
Thy mind with words of song,
Whose tones could wake the melody
Of worshipped days now gone;
And I would be in soul with thee,
Amid that speaking melody.
Oh! say not that thou canst not love,
Thy heart is passion'é own,
That only wants one gentle touch
To thrill from tone to tone.
Oh! could I, dare I, touch that chord,
Thou wert my own, in deed and word.
Thy heart is passion'é own,
That only wants one gentle touch
To thrill from tone to tone.
Oh! could I, dare I, touch that chord,
Thou wert my own, in deed and word.
It is because thou art apart,
A being wrapt and lone,
All differing from those around,
I'd make thee all mine own.
And thou art fair, and good, and true,
With something more, than all I knew.
A being wrapt and lone,
All differing from those around,
I'd make thee all mine own.
And thou art fair, and good, and true,
With something more, than all I knew.
Thou art not of the giddy throng,
Who laugh each hour away,
As if the heart could never know
A shadow of decay.
And yet thy smile is pure and bright—
Something of mirth, yet more of light.
Who laugh each hour away,
As if the heart could never know
A shadow of decay.
And yet thy smile is pure and bright—
Something of mirth, yet more of light.
In heart and soul thou art above
The many round thee met;
And yet how few could ever tell
What I can ne'er forget.
That mind may speak through beauty's eye,
Though lip may not the look belie.
The many round thee met;
And yet how few could ever tell
What I can ne'er forget.
That mind may speak through beauty's eye,
Though lip may not the look belie.
Oh! tell me, idol of my soul,
If this fond prayer of mine,
Concent'ring all my hopes in life,
Is still unheard in thine?
For I would rather die than live,
To leave the hopes thy words can give.
If this fond prayer of mine,
Concent'ring all my hopes in life,
Is still unheard in thine?
For I would rather die than live,
To leave the hopes thy words can give.
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[edit]Some random and debatable thoughts of mine[1], if you've got time to lose[2].
- Here, the ultimate goal of technological optimization is to proofread without reading. Most of the human input is unnecessary[3], and we can go much faster without it.[4].
- We should not focus on notability or usefulness, as they are both very relative[6]. I personally choose the works I do because why not[7].
- Every revert should be explained.
- We have a problem with documentation. No one actively takes care of the help pages[8]. The /doc subpages of templates are in some cases good, but they're hard to find. We have a great lot of them, a nice help page that doesn't cover a lot of them and a category tree that doesn't either[9]. Some templates are in categories that make them hard to find[10]. I am neither the first, nor the second, and not the third either to think we have a documentation issue. There have apparently been a number of attempts to fix this already, and they've more or less all dwindled to nothing.
Notes
[edit]- ↑ with an absurd quantity of footnotes for not really necessary information. I am usually more of a parentheses user, but refs clutter the text less, even though it's a bit awkward
- ↑ and you probably do, if you landed here
- ↑ e.g. copying in the previous/next fields names already written in the TOC
- ↑ it is a bit ridiculous that I am taking time that I could have spent proofreading to write on how precious time is
- ↑ though obscure doesn't mean bad, and the best I did were quite obscure
- ↑ notability also has the issue that it's when we duplicate most the work of others, as for instance PG has most famous texts, but likelily not obscure collections of poetry[5] by authors of whom the work is the only trace
- ↑ and maybe an unreasonable liking of running gags. Can't tell me the 139 authors were notable, or that a lot of people care for them
- ↑ and despite my complaining about it most of the time I don't either
- ↑ and is sometimes a bit unclear in the distinction between subcategories
- ↑ e.g. {{ppoem}} in Category:Experimental templates
Images
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![This is not an alien (it just looks funny [1]).](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Odontodactylus_scyllarus_60094688.jpg/135px-Odontodactylus_scyllarus_60094688.jpg)
This is not an alien (it just looks funny [1]). -
![Speaking of stuff that looks strange, this isn't bad[2].](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Strandbeest_walking_with_six_legs.gif/247px-Strandbeest_walking_with_six_legs.gif)
Speaking of stuff that looks strange, this isn't bad[2]. -
Sundogs are pretty, -
clouds can be too, -
as can the sea, -
though snow is even more, -
but space is much, -
much, -
much, -
much more beautiful than any of these. -
Oh, and also, I like cellular automata, -
and have made a few myself (and a simulator).
![This is not an alien (it just looks funny [1]).](/wiki/File:Odontodactylus_scyllarus_60094688.jpg)
![Speaking of stuff that looks strange, this isn't bad[2].](/wiki/File:Strandbeest_walking_with_six_legs.gif)
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- ↑ it would have been a shame if something called mantis shrimp has not been original
- ↑ details on that sort of stuff at w:Leg mechanism