Love’s philosophy

The fountains mingle with the riverAnd the rivers with the ocean,The winds of Heaven mix for everWith a sweet emotion;Nothing in the world is single,All things by a law divineIn one spirit meet and mingle –Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high HeavenAnd the waves clasp one another;No sister-flower would be forgivenIf…

The Raven

Once upon a midnight dreary,While I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curiousVolume of forgotten lore—While I nodded, nearly napping,Suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping,Rapping at my chamber door.“‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered,“Tapping at my chamber doorOnly this, and nothing more.” Ah, distinctly I remember,It was in the bleak…

I do not love you except I love you…

I do not love you except because I love you;  I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not waiting for you My heart moves from cold to fire. I love you only because it’s you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love…

If you forget me

 I want you to know  one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours…