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6985819 No.6985819 [Reply] [Original]

Which one (1) line of poetry do you find the most powerful/evocative/etc?

For me it's between "But doth suffer a sea-change" and "These fragments I have shored against my ruins".

>> No.6985898

>a goodly tree far distant to behold

>> No.6986440

I could not pick the arrows from my side

>> No.6986458

til human voices wake us, and we drown

>> No.6986477
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Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

>> No.6986509
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We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

>> No.6986539
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Nature without check with original energy.

>> No.6986608
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Ah if only I could be all people and all places!

>> No.6986838

>>6985819
Also:
Le vent se lève! . . . il faut tenter de vivre!

>> No.6987008
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'My nerves are bad tonight. Yes, bad. Stay with me.'

>> No.6987110
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6987110

She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?

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6987155

What ceremony of words can patch the havoc?

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6987232

^
>What ceremony of words can patch the havoc?

Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk! tbh

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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin

>> No.6988438

>And gathering swallows twitter in the skies

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Locke sank into a swoon
The Garden died

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6988459

>>6985819

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Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate.