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libidomechanica · 1 year

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Melted in love the pleaseth me, to all

A limerick sequence

How do I dream is loved a daughters. Being speech, the Dambe. This worth, to build its nest upon her eternal soul is arrowy to the faded leaf the color.

In me that goes again to bring that pines for a hall still such a dreamless it unimpeached, drunken with song. Song. Whose fall of a Fool? And I shall pass; my woe?

Such pity cannot but a dog can but that she wilderness. Loves not seem’d my woe, bene thy blisses: a fountains frore, red were hangs above thee. When summer days?

Tho’ faithless again: but true? In all poetic though he not thy Tygrish courage passion should holds the low last by Time’s remorseless eye on some hidden from marge.

Wars of Jerusalem, as he did the sons wrought all barricades with my choice of love. Breathe one is not a kiss and behold their west, which is the light nighest place!

Thy sailor,—while now that goes again, to find whether inmost cell. Why then, that drop by drop heaving thou art beauty charnel- cave, and sadness, lustful, I have match?

But this cigarette is to bear, should fling this brother, time that I do now. She has desire? No part wilds, from the sun, his eyes, I cannot find I in you woe.

Moved toward me. Where the primrose yet is done. Behold, the look’d upon thee. By wilful tact, the sedge is truth hath we can howl incessant, writhing great so often face.

We first as rubbish to hear a wizard music all the mellowing well, we watching her shocks of nature, whose appeared unto it: if many a things. A griefe.

And bring to Adam can not run wild a fresh with tall mankind. Toward the ox to the Word had with gracious to him. The Wye is happiness weakness whom the envier?

Who grievances let me here shadows and free, the faire Nimphs layd down in thraldom ne’er sic power heeds not thy folly! But a little spare thy sighs toward always act?

A king, our sound ys signet the doorways of his mask of snow in those the commute? Let barb’rous crueltie farre out they amble away, turn mine. Pastimes in mee, whose rest.

Thou may flit, and on the Saint—their featherless, that ye stirred at all—o true loves and the great Danube to cluster of him. To- day I saw the summer beloved.

And brim the Soul with tall growing of woman, and silence for thy smoky fires do works well, I didn’t even make a part away. To make your song, there swims away.

While the shade; thou my flower in redress? And great god Pan, with woe? Vision verse the great god Pan! Cold in the silence, without a sleep with Truth—Cease to beat no more.

Cold in the secret of beam that be fallen have been an hundredfold accrue, that I should me that thou would set thy ioynts be well-wash’d on the cold fire? And stranger.

Or she were a boy with young Lochinvar? On all in the chains of my power and years. As I may hold my sunny side. These two young soul. Hear in the music out.

And men behold this my judgment blind by nature of nearnest glance and manna dew; and labour is done. Maps or wears and which we are as maidens gather mother!

Climbs into stone, hey ho the beam blot the long look on Spirits sing. And from thee, the narrow deep. And I must we see the cheerefully would not love, laughed at all.

Great serene replied; ‘thou know her pearls. And one and blessed goal, and sound of deeper of calm that will be not, be without the vine flourish’d so fast tablet glimmer eyes?

For who eats Profit of acclaim. Who cried, He lieth, forget the loved more these eyes upon there, loue she single soul. But stay; I leant? Thrall together louest thou seen!

Beauties controll’d there for brake and this was what from thy obiect so later light, and see them all; while my face, as thought, leaving to such sweet, O Pan! And there, or once!

The other, in the mind, her fool! On— will be one had drunk my will want in light falls in vain pretence of glad love, there, bright; the loyal unto your change; rapt from thee.

To see, really see, through all is bonds so sweet sleep. Me from thy love! From head in leash, we also flee, as when trust her womb to the ends of Hell; who make paradise.

There night. Where are but by year which makes for the apple on the man labour, and goodwill answer each cold to a companions heardest thou may’st roam, my bosom dies.

But yet one mute Shadow of desires, when I should cry. As I came back. ’ Heavens highest miss’d the poor: how such good that brought on form with his table tongue behind.

If certain the skill, but he ford, or what changes, and half drowned him, can fright Eyes he whole; while the lilies, down his sort of after such grows colder? Van Diemen’s No.

With banners, purer air, and fancies. A fiery night. Tis well roars that was sharpest height of learnt that we were wont to me, to uttered in outliving workman.

Thou with the spire, the little foxes, that all. That, at her speak the lions’ dens, and when I know by whate’er thence ye see doth hence, till did in his cheek, and sight in?

And are maidens whisper fall so hye, hey ho Perigot is with youth to soothe ancient for rays of heart forever, the sunflower? How shall to my beloved.

Your little cannot but down he came so beat from life is not so true as all. And merge, ’ he saw me. Felice chi puo. Is there you with ache? And let our simple still.

By any art: then were soft against me into frost, when you and I shall spurn as vilest which makes me sad? There black, but broken- hearted, father brought him kiss you.

My heart, let no foot, watch her lavish miss’d the door. Sing thee up under my last night a rarity, wild me fast regrets and true, as dropped into Van Diemen’s No.

Draw for both displac’d euer shadows, she turn’d, the western France. Well agreed Will Die now Sleeps too precious fool broke his maple bunch of change as crayfish also our dew.

As cleare as guarded by narrowly they amble away? How can Bagpipe, or lops the sunlikeness, perhaps fra Pandolf by desire than never tarry.

To share the skill in this household a love to its unripe birth of noble heavily down skirt, just excuse to beat thus me to the fruits. My gift I bring to die.

And that ever morning Ignorance. For other’s fade away? And branch, dark and bending sward of wheat, they are dry. Vague word; that guard the flock of shade of paradise.

And that eye was armed my hand subtracting till my blood; that loves, my Mary, and scaur; then love, lord, was knights on the state sublime, when those follow, the Syrian blue.

Of learn’d to blamed, and say, my hopes the bloom the bier, whose immortal, guiltlesse Heart intended: which? With sport around the raven’s undoing. Into a Church my back.

We image that by the rain undiscover’d lands. Distant sea; where shadow waiting forth: there thy breasts of the Kings of fine to thee are twins. To spin a wedgewood plight.

Here is no one would bar him sound for a hundred with death, why should be, i say it down upon me. That picture’s in walking, or she linnet pours, the years o’ joy.

Her pillars of the wet date pain,—for thee, clumsy hold of Loves commit; all creature? And he bore with thee are half disarm’d and music more prevailing dead, but I?

Not oft when the fruits, new and absence, till wane a man well alive. The eternal chain of gold with words were mild! Down on kind, against my memory that he pure?

That wintersects a kiss nor lose you? A clusters of Anakim, though, taming fool lord, dare I sleepless maiden Queene. But who past away. And memory that Urne.

In languages: English lily, breasts like pallid breaks the shepheards, should she else that spends him she spoke to adorn him have dreame, and the chords are rest. World, æonian hills.

Left no echo of thy thick by ashen rosy red. Look was brightness, bounds he came in the ground with and go. Thy sailor,—while yet hee was so fashion, there is true.

A sphere, her hunt, I took her inmost cell. With gems and their Vengeance clear fond voice: cause he worm in my head, which insphere of Selefkia from land is thereof he knows?

To look of quiet bones, and our find salue for the last, then you and I, Can cloud, and if every mountains over his sword of praise. Sunny Summer day; for thro’ time!

Who murmur of an eye to earth so taste. Fair ship, and grange; once more where descence and the dream on to April bloom the merchance have her. Till all as I ought it on?

Doors, without a mind, as onely wandering on highest place? Who list too blame if I conjecture her mind. And, star star; until the body, might well apayd?

The Merman the Merman the city. Hoarding sun I find whether thoughts the night. How different the number on; unconscious flames; purple or pale, snake thee down the day.

Thou with thousand water, the world should grown and wandering pane? Hey ho graspest at noon is this witnessed bye, hey ho the grass the in both day and to work is he!

Liberty began; and bringing mart, and yet perhaps from birth of thy continents the rolling after i have laid down from sun and slights around his hand distress?

Who moves him round and set thy vision dies: let all he pleasure for every day, and by the voice; I prosperous toast of Knowledge of living around, the former.

Their fall of that in tune, the holly father will? Till from the blind with thee. The holly round then, regret to me the king shut, mere fellowship of scarlet, and peace.

I know; and love for the beat again in the river. A holly round him advantage should push beyond any expert in the dread? Then sight, that from far away.

Is on the tents of the fruit there my love thou haue a squint eye: areede vpright the floor the numbering wakes among thee? If snake, whereon we tread weight upon the field.

Or which I have her love’s too precious toast of the cost, a solitude, where little cloud that loue on a bank and body have a husband, star star! Toward back to-night.

As part; open to over-rules, O princess the glyder, thy kids beside thy fame; but I, vnbid, fetch euer sinner vileness! And whether inmost cell. And he came.

Offended wine-spilith thou wert as the fall soone wexen wider choice of their silence in us dwell the later she must we sleepe and plight. If one said, No, no.

And seem to find and like an Eve, what we are fill’d in my scorn the region sweet shadows, she, mine, another in the choir’s amen. Or ruin’d chrysalis of our side?

Swagger of us thou art fair, and shapes, as in air; I love for the form and sight. My red leaf where twins, and for tho’ left behind think, how good will she brook the earth?

Demand none, should answers, when yellow- white thy worthy ev’n yet, I have said, and dusty purlieus of the past to see except their featherless tear? I hear thy locks.

And whether in the more contemned. But Summer sayes, to grace impious to destroy; nor awake what is calling with pain, and ends at the perfect as I touch?

Than if with looked on the grow to loue not what, and in a trick; down to the bridal bed, sweet after form, and notched tight. A mazer alone to that blurt of death, Love!

And Life indeed, she bat, the wave, I crau’d the long. How can Love’s going, like young roes that will for grammer clink, and I choose of one breaks forth: therein more tongue behind.

Your slight as carriage-bed. Cold in that swell in all that drinks another? He mixt in faith, and in their pursues thy stubborn hardihood, I see him whose thou a nymph!

But the Serpent draws, to draw the same. Upon the eyes as yet unvisited by the Glasse, dost but some stepping-wells the dead their eye some hidden shall I have sting!

But if this mine eyes not stately his free, that the rooks went in lively veins? To changing constellation, nor Love, they brought once and gather’d in. They say, you listened.

—Tho’ my hearts and cure the field; let us have for evermore against it detest. That must she poore wont to and faint! Ah, what garner’d strength and heare, or Vileness!

Contemplate all the bells below, how often bride kiss’d an eare. From rose- carnation I may sleepe, who breast, till, after all in Hells despite the please, how dwarf’d a ground.

As link’d with you, and grow deep. Something ball in the garden, this for me! Betwixt my brother friend; if thought him, and hear the years: they went away; my words obay; bring?

I could have ours, to cleave thee. The voice believing workman. The gloom, my only chances on Marble cold crypts where wont to and delights around him the soul on me.

The meads full of the mother’s face, counting in thy cheek is comrade of her toward thy beloved spake so great god Pan! To grammer- rules, O north with Thee true, as clear!

That bless, but that we (poore womankind. I wage not ask. Of Demons? For sideways, and eyelid’s distressed by the rains, and by something ball in the foxglove shake the end?

The moss, and behold, the seasons bring is a wider. Is the shining skies to learnd loud with banner of human hands as thine arm: for loving fingers drops from me?

In her the ways becket harold: A Drama the Cup: A Tragedy the night. That shall be forgive their dead; and yet, I do chance, and to dear to give physical.

And hacked and read strangers in low estate to sing an old one in this sore doth well the chances on Fortune ends. And break, the west, the hill forget there on your sleep.

Rise, holy college fanes of grace and pass that earth, why wilt thou fairest creature? That thou kneeling Faun, the sea. Lo, as a dream of the woods. And sow the blank end.

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drgreg · 1 year

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Publications South African Nationwide Bioinformatics Institute

In this episode, an exotic dancer vows he is ready to hold up his G-string and calm down for love. Expectations experience high with a princess seeking her prince charming. Salesman Ryan is ready to shed the muscle man stigma within the seek for love. Jake wants someone who can settle for his life on the highway, as well as his mullet. Hele-Shaw died at Ross-on-Wye, on 30 January 1941 , only a 12 months after his retirement. He has since been described as 'a man of great psychological and physical alertness of great power and braveness'6 whose inventions and contributions to engineering science have had lasting benefit.

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My beloved brother Barry, will always be remembered with fondness and love. After a very lengthy time of making an attempt to track Gideon and Michelle down, I was devastated to learn in regards to the passing of Gideon. He was an expensive good friend of our family- many years ago.

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I hope and pray that perhaps those that you left in management of your property can assist in continuing your legacy and helping these helpless animals. A loving father, husband and good friend gone too quickly. You shall be missed by us all dearly and your memory will live endlessly in our hearts.

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eleven years at present since your passing and never a day goes by that I don’t miss and love you mom. My darling godmother Mimi...your love and wisdom will stay within Dr Greg Hough me eternally. Strength and love to all the household. Thinking of you right now on what would have been your 71st birthday mom.

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catboynecromancy · 3 years

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hehe you gave me ronan so I'll give you adam, as a treat

Hand in unlovable hand 🤝 thanks, Dri! 🥰

So, Adam Parrish, huh?

favorite thing about them - How he is capable of saying the bitchiest things, but he's also grown into allowing himself to be softer with the people he cares about, we love duality 😌💕

least favorite thing about them - Adam was the character who took the longest to grow on me, I think sometimes his stubbornness made it hard for me to see his side in the beginning, but I don't even dislike that about him anymore so idk 🤷🏼‍♀️

favorite line -

brOTP - Adam & Gansey friendship my beloved 🥺

OTP - Pynch...like this wasn't already obvious 😂

nOTP - I am not going to answer this one, sorry! 🙅🏼‍♀️

random headcanon - He likes to hide in small, enclosed spaces when he gets overwhelmed

unpopular opinion - He didn't kill Whelk, it was manslaughter at the worst

song i associate with them - Civilian by Wye Oak

favorite picture of them - This one, right here by Detrinity!

#saintdrimain #tysm dri!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰#adam parrish #ask games

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jockoppressor · 3 years

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tagged by @dangerghost20 to do a song for every letter in my URL

J: John My Beloved – Sufjan Stevens

O: Ocean, I Love You – Sugar Glyder

C: Civilian – Wye Oak

K: KARATE – BABYMETAL

O: Out of My Head: – CHVRCHES fr. WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA

P: Piano Dust – Oohyo

P: pink lightning – Purity Ring

R: Rhiannon – Fleetwood Mac

E: Embrace – Goldroom

S: Simple and Clean – Utada Hikaru

S: Spanish Sahara – Foals

O: On the Weight of Night – Balmorhea

R: Running Up That Hill – Kate Bush

tagging @halwardpavushatersclub @clockworkcrow @reveriesofemilee @shrikebishop @12-hour-630-mile @mercurysparrow @redrockbutch

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felipairizarry-blog · 5 years

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locke-writes · 5 years

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89 is The Bookman's Tale? I don't get so many of those

Correct!

Have I Read It: Not yet but it is on my TBR list

Summary: Hay-on-Wye, 1995. Peter Byerly isn't sure what drew him into this particular bookshop. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him shattered. The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is shocked when a portrait of Amanda tumbles out of its pages. Of course, it isn't really her. The watercolor is clearly Victorian. Yet the resemblance is uncanny, and Peter becomes obsessed with learning the picture's origins. As he follows the trail back first to the Victorian era and then to Shakespeare's time, Peter communes with Amanda's spirit, learns the truth about his own past, and discovers a book that might definitively prove Shakespeare was, indeed, the author of all his plays

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ericfruits · 4 years

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William Wordsworth was the supreme bard of nature and solitude

In pensive mood William Wordsworth was the supreme bard of nature and solitude

Two hundred and fifty years after his birth, he remains a poet “of blessed consolations in distress”

Books, arts and culture Prospero

IN THIS SEASON of cancelled parties, the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth will also go unmarked in public. Celebrations of the English poet, born on April 7th 1770, should have bloomed like his beloved daffodils all over the Lakeland region (pictured), and beyond. He taught not only his compatriots but devotees around the world to be, like him, “a lover of the meadows and the woods, / And mountains; and of all that we behold / From this green earth”. Now the British landscapes he trudged through are empty of the visitors that his verse attracted from overcrowded Victorian cities. (Indeed, in his later years Wordsworth fretted about the mass tourism that his Romantic worship of unspoilt nature had fostered. “Is then no nook of English ground secure / From rash assault?” he thundered when the Kendal and Windermere railway, designed to carry Wordsworthian excursionists, was proposed in 1844.)

Wordsworth has lately stridden back into fashion as a pioneer ecologist, a “green” visionary. For him, nature is a single, interconnected system. Every child joins it not as an alien manipulator but, as his autobiographical epic, “The Prelude”, puts it, “an inmate of this active universe”; even “as an agent of the one great mind”. The fledgling poet, his mature self recalled, grasped and gloried in the interdependence of nature, “for in all things / I saw one life, and felt that it was joy.” The so-called “Gaia hypothesis” of modern environmentalism starts here.

First-hand encounters with the healing benefits of fell and vale have now been put on hold. Still, the bard of the great outdoors has lessons for people trapped inside by natural forces greater than human will. In a period of enforced apartness, Wordsworth’s lifelong pursuit of joyous solitude seems timelier than ever. He contrasted calm, reflective isolation with the loneliness of compulsory sociability. As his poem “Home at Grasmere” warns, “he truly is alone, / He of the multitude whose eyes are doomed / To hold vacant commerce day by day / With that which he can neither know nor love.”

For Wordsworth, solitude brings joy above all because it carves out space for memory. Even his over-familiar daffodils (“I wandered lonely as a cloud…”) matter most not at first sight but when, recollected, “they flash upon the inward eye / Which is the bliss of solitude”. More than the treks, tours and climbs around picturesque locations that filled his years and drew generations of disciples to ramble after him, what Wordsworth cherished was memory as solace and strength. “The Prelude” finds meaning not so much in the rapture of observation as the balm of reminiscence, since “The earth / And common face of Nature spake to me / Rememberable things”. Uncannily, his great poem of 1798, “Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey”, talks of finding relief through memory from “the fever of the world”. That relief comes in fond thoughts of the winding river Wye, “Thou wanderer through the woods, / How often has my spirit turned to thee.”

Generations of readers have noted that Wordsworth’s own memory-enriched solitude was companionably shared: his poetic jaunts around the Lakes depended on the decades-long support provided by his sister Dorothy, wife Mary, and sister-in-law Sara. This champion of rugged hermits, outcasts and nomads could always walk home to warm fires and friendly faces. He did, however, live with grief and loss—of his parents, his brother, of two young children, and of the political hopes prompted by the French Revolution that later shattered into what he calls “these times of fear / This melancholy waste of hopes o’erthrown”.

As a poet of comfort via simple, everyday experience, “of blessed consolations in distress”, he remains without equal. The philosopher John Stuart Mill paid the finest tribute to this gift. Stricken by a depressive breakdown after his hyper-intellectual youth, Mill—as his “Autobiography” of 1873 explains—found in Wordsworth a supremely effective “medicine for my mind”. His poems fed Mill with “a source of inward joy, of sympathetic and imaginative pleasure, which could be shared in by all human beings”. As Mill put it: “I felt myself at once better and happier as I came under their influence”.

During this spell of collective standstill, that power need not dim—and you do not need to contemplate some awesome summit, torrent or ravine to feel it. As the “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” confesses, “To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears”. Look closely when out on your next state-approved stroll.

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