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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

“He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.”

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LOVE IS A MADNESS

12 lines
Edgar Lee Masters·1868–1950
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ove is a madness, love is a fevered dream,A white soul lost in a field of scarlet flowers--Love is a search for the lost, the ever vanishing gleamOf wings, desires and sorrows and haunted hours. Will the look return to your eyes, the warmth to your hand?Love is a doubt, an ache, love is a writhing fear.Love is a potion drunk when the ship puts out from land,Rudderless, sails at full, and with none to steer. The end is a shattered lamp, a drunken seraph asleep,The upturned face of the drowned on a barren beach.The glare of noon is o'er us, we are ashamed to weep--The beginning and end of love are devoid of speech.
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