Her Stare
confirms
the harshness
of the
big C
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not satisfied I see
Until I languish in distress.
Since then I've lost all liveliness:
What harm alive, to you, was she?
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me.
Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must lifeless be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Prayer For His Lady’s Life
FROM PROPERTIUS, ELEGIAE, LIB. III, 26
Here let thy clemency, Persephone, hold firm,
Do thou, Pluto, bring here no greater harshness.
So many thousand beauties are gone down to Avernus,
Ye might let one remain above with us.
With you is lope, with you the white-gleaming Tyro,
With you is Europa and the shameless Pasiphae,
And all the fair from Troy and all from Achaia,
From the sundered realms, of Thebes and of aged Priamus;
And all the maidens of Rome, as many as they were,
They died and the greed of your flame consumes them.
Here let thy clemency, Persephone, hold firm.
Do thou, Pluto, bring here no greater harshness.
So many thousandfair are gone down to Avernus,
Ye might let one remain above with us.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
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His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
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When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
The sheep's opinion confirms the howl of wolves!
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
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It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
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Notes 3
the war is not
over
the sky is falling
the earth shakes
to the
every day
harshness
of men
to men
the war continues
with the
clouds and the rain
still searching
for the
light of the sun
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable.
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Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
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Some Birds' Cries
There is nowhere
To escape
From the
Harshness of
This world
That is what I think
In the mountains’
Farthest
In the forest’s deepest
I still hear
Some birds’ cries
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
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I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
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