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Former Lovers

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I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng.

Ernest Dowson

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I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

Virgil

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The line must terminate.
Yet my heart rises, I know I’ve gladdened a lifetime
knotting, undoing a fishnet of tarred rope;
the net will hang on the wall when the fish are eaten,
nailed like illegible bronze on the futureless future.

Robert Lowell

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I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.

Ernest Dowson

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And I would have, now love is over,
An end to all, an end:
I cannot, having been your lover,
Stoop to become your friend!

Arthur Symons

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