Private Property

A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)

All fly–yet who is misanthrope?–

The actual men and things that pass

Jostling, to wither as the grass

So soon: and (be it heaven’s hope,

Or poetry’s kaleidoscope,

Or love or wine, at feast, at mass)

Each owns a paradise of glass

Where never a yearning heliotrope

Pursues the sun’s ascent or slope;

For the sun dreams there, and no time is or was.

Like fauns embossed in our domain,

We look abroad, and our calm eyes

Mark how the goatish gods of pain

Revel; and if by grim surprise

They break into our paradise,

Patient we build its beauty up again.

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Poems in English 

• Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Orpheus by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Not marble nor the guilded monuments (Sonnet 55) by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14) by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Love by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• It was a Lover and his Lass by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Hark! Hark! The Lark by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• From you have I been absent in the spring… (Sonnet 98) by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Fidele by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Fear No More by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Fairy Land v by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Fairy Land iv by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Fairy Land iii by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Fairy Land ii by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Dirge of the Three Queens by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Dirge by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Carpe Diem by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Bridal Song by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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