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=Eating Poetry=

Binding Topic: Life
"The Hour-glass" Ben Jonson

Do but consider this small dust, here running in the glass, By atoms moved. Could you believe that this the body was of one that loved? And in his mistress ' flame playing like a fly, turned to cinders by her eye ? Yes, and in death as life unblest,To have't expressed, Even ashes of lovers find no rest.

"1641 Retort" By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Thou art a fool," said my head to my heart, "Indeed, the greatest of fools thou art, To be led astray by trick of a tress, By a smiling face or a ribbon smart;" And my heart was in sore distress.

Then Phyllis came by, and her face was fair, The light gleamed soft on her raven hair; And her lips were blooming a rosy red. Then my heart spoke out with a right bold air: "Thou art worse than a fool, O head!"

"I Lost a World- the other day" By Emily dickenson

lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? You'll know it by the Row of Stars Around its forehead bound.

A Rich man—might not notice it— Yet—to my frugal Eye, Of more Esteem than Ducats— Oh find it—Sir—for me!

"Life" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

A CRUST of bread and a corner to sleep in, A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double ; And that is life!

A crust and a corner that love makes precious, With a smile to warm and the tears to refresh us; And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter; And that is life!

 "Loneliness" by Rebecca Drollinger It is cold today Indeed the rain is falling and I am alone. Thoughts of life and love, meaningless to anyone but myself. I am alone. They watch me, their eyes not knowing, knowing nothing of what they see. I am but another creature, alone. They scurry on the surface, unaware, unaware of the life below when you are alone.

Loneliness, not a burden nor a sorrow, but a time of solace, of deepness never to be shared, never to be understood. They can never reach the place where I am And I know I will never reach the place where they are. I know I don't want to reach that place. True happiness is here, unmisted. Unmisted by smiles or laughter, unmisted by the joys of company.

To find true happiness, to know if one is truly happy, he must be happy alone.