Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except that you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

from "Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart" by John Donne
Unknown "my girl!" Loving - 15 years, 5 months, 1 day ago

Her lips were open - not a sound
Came through the parted lines of red.
Whatever it was, the hideous wound
In silence and in secret bled.
No sigh relieved her speechless woe,
She had no voice to speak her dread.

from "The Other Side of the Mirror" by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Unknown "my girl!" Loving - 15 years, 6 months, 3 days ago

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

from "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost

Unknown "my girl!" Loving - 15 years, 6 months, 21 days ago

Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

from Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears" - The Princess
Unknown "my girl!" Loving - 15 years, 6 months, 25 days ago

There were days when she was very happy without knowing why. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in. And she found it good to dream and to be alone and unmolested.

There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why - when it did not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead, when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation. She could not work on such a day, nor weave fancies to stir her pulses and warm her blood.

from The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Unknown "my girl!" Loving - 15 years, 7 months, 4 days ago