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When you're stoned, baby, I am drunk.And we make love, it seems a little desolateIt's hard sometimes not to look awayAnd think what's the point when I'm having to hold this fire downI think I'll explode if I can't feel this freely now. When your stalled baby take me home.
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   Time was awayand somewhere else.


— 1939  'Meeting Point'. Collected in Collected Poems1925-1948 (1949).

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And when We bless man, he turns awayand withdraws aside; but when evil visits him, he is full of endless prayers.

The Koran

— Sura 41, l.51.

Tags: when, We, bless, man, turns, withdraws, aside, evil, visits

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My silks and fine array,My smiles and languished air,By love are driv'n away;And mournful lean DespairBrings me yew to deck my grave:Such end true lovers have.

william blake

— Song (My Silks and Fine Arrays), st. 1

Tags: silks, smiles, languished, airBy, love, driv'n, mournful, lean, me

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Still, as I mused, the naked room,The alien firelight died away;And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright, unclouded day.

emily brontë

— Stanza vi.

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Curse away!And let me tell thee, Beauseant, a wise proverbThe Arabs have,—"Curses are like young chickens,And still come home to roost."

edward bulwer-lytton

— The Lady of Lyons (1838), Act v, Scene ii.

Tags: Curse, me, tell, wise, young, home, roost

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Fame and fortune is a magnet.It can pull you far away from homeWith a dream in your heart you're never alone.Dreams turn into dust and blow awayand there you are without a friend

Hal David

— Song Do You Know the Way to San Jose

Tags: Fame, fortune, can, pull, you, far, away, dream, heart

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I have had worse partings, but none that soGnaws at my mind still. Perhaps it is roughlySaying what God alone could perfectly show —How selfhood begins with a walking away,And Jove is proved in the letting go.

cecil day lewis

— "Walking Away" (1962), p. 33

Tags: worse, partings, none, mind, what, God, alone, perfectly, show

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If thou would'st have me sing and playAs once I play'd and sung,First take this time-worn lute away,And bring one freshly strung.

thomas moore

— If Thou would'st have Me sing and play.

Tags: would'st, me, sing, once, play'd, timeworn, lute, one, freshly

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If of these United States I was the President,No man that owed another should ever pay a cent;And he who dunn'd another should be banished far away,And attention to the pretty girls is all a man should pay.

james pierpont

— "The Returned Californian"

Tags: United, States, man, owed, another, pay, who, banished, far

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Two birds on a wireOne tries to fly awayand the other watches him close from that wireHe says he wants to as wellBut he is a liar

regina spektor

— Two Birds

Tags: Two, birds, tries, fly, other, watches, him, close, wants

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