Love, my heart longs day and night
Sweep me away like a storm; take e
In that devastation, in the utter
Alas for my vain desire! Where i

Why did the lamp go out?
I shaded it with my cloak to save
Why did the flower fade?
I pressed it to my heart with anxi
Why did the stream dry up?

The day is not yet done, the fair
I had feared that my time had been
But no, my brother, I have still
The selling and buying are over.
All the dues on both sides have be

I dive down into the depth of the
No more sailing from harbor to har
And now I am eager to die into th
Into the audience hall by the fath
I shall tune it to the notes of fo

A message came from my youth of va
you among the quivering of unborn
and hours ache with songs unsung.”
It says, “Come to me across the w
the gates of death. For dreams fad

When I go from hence
let this be my parting word,
that what I have seen is unsurpass
I have tasted of the hidden honey
that expands on the ocean of light

The night is black and the forest
a million people thread it in a mi
We have trysts to keep in the dark
or with whom– of that we are unawa
But we have this faith– that a lif

When the lamp went out by my bed
I sat at my open window with a fre
The young traveller came along the
A pearl chain was on his neck, and
For very shame I could not say, “

In the dusky path of a dream I we
Her house stood at the end of a de
In the evening breeze her pet peac
She set her lamp down by the porta
She raised her large eyes to my fa

O Fool, try to carry thyself upon
O beggar, to come beg at thy own d
Leave all thy burdens on his hands
and never look behind in regret.
Thy desire at once puts out the li