"Do you miss the rogue
who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?"

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,

or else my heart concealing it will break"

"Past the curses and cries.
Beyond the terror in the nightfall"

"In black ink my love may still shine bright"

"For beauty, starved with her severity,

Cuts beauty off from all posterity."

"I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones
in a faith-forgotten land."

"Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms."

"With tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew,

Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs."

"I wish to know the fatal flaw that makes you long to be magnificently cursed"

"Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon"

"My pride fell with my fortunes"

"Speak low, if you speak love"

"Is it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me?"

"I have a soul of lead

So stakes me to the ground I cannot move."

"What should be over burrowed under my skin
In heart-stopping waves of hurt."

"While I bathe in cliffside pools
With my calamitous love and insurmountable grief."

"Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books."

"Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast."

"What if her eyes were there, they in her head?

The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars."