>As for me, I am a watercolor.
>I wash off.
Anne Sexton, from "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife"
>For want of me the world's course will not fail:
>When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;
>The truth is great, and shall prevail,
>When none cares whether is prevail or not.
Coventry Patmore, from "Magna Est Veritas"
>Yet if you should forget me for a while
>And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
>For if the darkness and corruption leave
>A vestige of the thoughts that I once had,
>Better by far that you should forget and smile
>Than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti, from "Remember"
>I shall not see the shadows,
>I shall not feel the rain;
>I shall not hear the nightingale
>Sing on, as if in pain:
>And dreaming through the twilight
>That doth not rise nor set,
>Haply I may remember,
>And haply I may forget.
Christina Rossetti, from "Song"
>I am tired of tears and laughter,
>And men that laugh and weep,
>Of what may come hereafter
>For men that sow to reap;
>I am weary of days and hours,
>Blown buds of barren flowers,
>Desires and dreams and powers
>And everything but sleep.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, from "The Garden of Proserpine"