Tuesday, January 18, 2011

love, let us be true

"...
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."


Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach


once again found here

2 comments:

  1. A tremendous poem. There can't be a better poetic phrase than "darkling plain."

    Sad.

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  2. Delicioso e triste ao mesmo tempo. Um resumo real de muitos relacionamentos.Lets have guts to change it!!! (ups...)

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