David Given Schwarm

       Out of her secret Paradise she sped,       Through camps and cities rough with stone, and steel,       And human hearts, which to her aery tread       Yielding not, wounded the invisible       Palms of her tender feet where’er they fell:       And barbed tongues, and thoughts more sharp than they,       Rent the soft Form they never could repel,      …

       She rose like an autumnal Night, that springs       Out of the East, and follows wild and drear       The golden Day, which, on eternal wings,       Even as a ghost abandoning a bier,       Had left the Earth a corpse. Sorrow and fear       So struck, so rous’d, so rapt Urania;       So sadden’d round her like an atmosphere      …

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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

He will awake no more, oh, never more!       “Wake thou,” cried Misery, “childless Mother, rise       Out of thy sleep, and slake, in thy heart’s core,       A wound more fierce than his, with tears and sighs.”       And all the Dreams that watch’d Urania’s eyes,       And all the Echoes whom their sister’s song       Had held in holy silence,…

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov My rating: 5 of 5 stars Massive. Absolutely Massive. Clearly one of the great books of the 20th century and likely required repeat reader. I had no idea what this book was even about until I read it for the third time–I had read it in high school (do not remember…