Sigh no more

William Shakespeare – from As You Like it
 
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
    Men are deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
    To one thing constant never,
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
    And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds or woe
    Into hey nonny, nonny.
 
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Bright star

John Keats
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-
     Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
     Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
    Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask
    Of snow upon the mountains and the [...]

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