La Dame Du Palais De La Reine
SOPHIE, in shocks of scarlet lace,
Receives her usual embrace
Beneath a hedge, behind a curtain,
Or in the chambers of His Grace.
Whether a kiss be worth the care
Five minions wasted on her hair,
Sophie herself is half uncertain,
Paused in adorable despair.
When past beseeching Man she floats
In golden-coasted petticoats,
A shaft of irritation passes;
Like colic; but with antidotes.
Then serious doubts occur of Love
That spoils the Peacock, sours the Dove,
And mixes up the lower classes
So hopelessly with those above.
Is the bird Passion worth the lime?
Can the small Amor turn to crime
By ruining skirts—and the digestion?
Such problems occupy her time.
But often these objections thaw
To counts with viols—or grooms with straw—
And Sophie, giving up the question,
Bends to some strange but natural law.
With books of music, diamond rings,
Spaniels and roses, fireworks, swings,
Her lovers come. But Sophie sighs,
Whose thoughts are fixed on Higher Things.
Between the sleepy kisses given,
Her mind by grave debate is driven,
Perplexity distracts those eyes
Which, lovers vow, are lost in Heaven!
poem by Kenneth Slessor
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The Window
Little Sophie sat by her window
on every single day,
just looking for someone
with whom she could play.
The streets were full of people
but none of them she knew.
She waved at them as they went by
and some of them waved too.
But they were busy people
going everywhere.
None of them had time for play,
no time to spare.
Her sisters and her brother
all went to school.
She could not go. She was only four
and that was against the rule.
So by the window Sophie sat
and one day someone smiled.
It was a mother passing by
with her little child.
And after several days of this
a knock came at her door.
It was the mother with her child
who also was just four.
The mother said 'My little one is lonely.
She needs a friend like you.'
So Sophie clapped her hands and said
'I know what we can do.'
And so they played for hours
and then her friend did say
'Can we sit by your window
and wave to people today? '
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x Together We Are One x
I stare into your chocolate brown eyes,
Our lips softly touch,
Your arms wrapped around me,
My hands glide smoothly through your fluffy hair,
My heart is pounding,
You know my every secret,
We laugh at the simplest things,
We love being together,
I love it when you kiss me, hug me and love me,
Together, we are always,
We never ever part,
Our eyes always meet where ever we are,
So much friendship surrounds us,
So much love is within us,
You pick me up when I am down,
You wipe me tears when they roll down my face,
You stick by me when I am alone,
You help me when it's needed,
Together we love,
Together we kiss,
Together we hug,
'Together' I miss,
Together we are one.
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If peace only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.
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They give themselves to God when the Devil will no longer have them.
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Repentance is accepted remorse.
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Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond.
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