Quote #6
I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them.
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- Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee, With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!
- To-morrow it seem Like the empty words of a dream Remembered on waking.
- They gathered up the crystal manna to freeze Their tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing; Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to…
- My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
- When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loo…
- Why hast thou nothing in thy face? Thou idol of the human race, Thou tyrant of the human heart, The flower of lovely youth that art.
- For beauty being the best of all we know Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims Of nature.
- Surely thy body is thy mind, For in thy face is nought to find, Only thy soft unchristened smile, That shadows neither love nor guile.