“Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.”
Tanith Lee book Delirium's Mistress
Source: Delirium's Mistress
“Not now. Love itself a flower
with roots in a parched ground.”
"Raleigh Was Right" (1940)
Collected Later Poems (1950)
Context: Not now. Love itself a flower
with roots in a parched ground.
Empty pockets make empty heads.
Cure it if you can but
do not believe that we can live
today in the country
for the country will bring us
no peace.
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Than the heroes' sunset fire
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