Eliyes

Love Is Not All
by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.

https://allpoetry.com/Love-Is-Not-All


stand with your lover on the ending earth
by e. e. cummings

stand with your lover on the ending earth-

and while a(huge which by which huger than
huge)whoing sea leaps to greenly hurl snow

suppose we could not love,dear;imagine

ourselves like living neither nor dead these
(or many thousand hearts which don’t and dream
or many million minds which sleep and move)
blind sands,at pitiless the mercy of

time time time time time

-how fortunate are you and i,whose home
is timelessness:we who have wandered down
from fragrant mountains of eternal now

to frolic in such mysteries as birth
and death a day(or maybe even less)


http://www.augustpoetry.org/poets/Cummings.htm


a snippet from Loreena McKennitt's "All Souls' Night" that stood out:

Standing on the bridge that crosses
The river that goes out to the sea
The wind is full of a thousand voices
They pass by the bridge and me


and Hildegard von Blingin's Medieval-Renaissance version of "We Didn't Start the Fire" (lyrics in thw video description) on YT here:

https://youtu.be/drDs-Y5DNH8

"River Roll On" - The Judds

( No tears to cry - wish I could be like you )

So, lyrics!

( I Was A Fool )

But especially

( I'm Not Your Hero )

Summer Sun
Jukebox the Ghost

My heart has been my teacher and I've learned quite a lot
Listened while I could and tried not to get caught
In the boom badum, badum, badum,( badum )

.

and we want our revenge

( Cloud's theme song )


Safe and Sound - Kyosuke Himuro feat. Gerard Way (Listen to it here.)

If you're filled
with affection
you're too shy to convey,
meditate in my direction.
Feel your way. ♥

( lyrics! )


Once there was a Ship of Stone
Clear domed, broad hulled and clean
Where the air shone blue, through whose holds birds flew
And whose decks were growing green

And no matter how odd these things may seem
As madly mazed as shards of dream
They are not a dream that you dream alone
All ships, all men, are of one kin
We shall not forget the Ship of Stone.

If I'm not over you by the time I get to Georgia
Then I guess I'll be Alabama bound
There was a time when I'd do anything for you
But this time, baby, I won't turn around, yeah

( click here for the rest of the lyrics, and an embedded video )

So, I obsess easily. And when I got a hold of a live performance by four ladies who, as a group, are apparently Divine Strumpet, about a team of four female superheroes from the 70s, I figured I'd look it all up. :3 And transcribe the lyrics (which I cheated with by finding a partial transcription, which was necessary because I was mishearing two of the names; in my defense, who expects "Fauna" and "Hercula"?)

( lyrics -- and a picture! )