inspiration

. words that inspire our perfumes .


MATTHEW ARNOLD
the buried life
dover beach
immortality
isolation
morality
requiescat
self-dependence

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
benediction
carrion
i worship you like night's pavilion
preface to the flowers of evil

AMBROSE BIERCE
deus iræ / the day of wrath

ROBERT BLAIR
the grave

ELIZABETH BARRET BROWNING
xxii
discontent
grief
irreparableness
a thought for a lonely death-bed

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
thanatopsis

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
and thou art dead
and wilt thou weep when i am low
darkness
i would i were a careless child
incantation
lara: XVII
lines inscribed upon a cup formed from a skull
my soul is dark
oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom
remember him, whom passion's power
stanzas to the po
there was a time i need not name
to caroline
to a lady
to m --
to time
when coldness wraps this suffering clay
when we two parted

LEWIS CARROL
jabberwocky
phantasmagoria

WILLIAM TAYLOR COLERIDGE
christabel
kubla khan
phantom
the presence of love

JOHN DONNE
a funeral elegy
the funeral
witchcraft by a picture
a valediction: of weeping

LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS
the city of the soul: II
the dead poet
not all the singers of a thousand years
a summer storm

T.S. ELIOT
the hollow men
sweeny among the nightengales
the waste land

QUEEN ELIZABETH I
on monsieur's departure


PHILIP FRENEAU
house of night

ROBERT GRAVES
the cruel moon

THOMAS GRAY
an elegy wrote in a country churchyard
the epitaph
the fatal sisters: an ode

JOHN KEATS
VIII
la belle dame sans merci
ode on melancholy
ode to psyche
posthuma
to sleep

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
i, being born a woman

PABLO NERUDA
poema veinte

THOMAS PARNELL
a night-piece on death

EDGAR ALLAN POE
alone
conqueror worm
elizabeth
evening star
the haunted palace
lenore
serenade
the sleeper
spirits of the dead
tamerlane
to f -- s s. o -- d
to m --
ulalume

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
remember

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
to ---

PHILIP SIDNEY
come sleep! o sleep
eleventh song from arcadia
i might! unhappy word
leave me, o love, which reachest but to dust
loving in truth
no more, my dear
song from arcadia
with how sad steps

DYLAN THOMAS
and death shall have no dominion
do not go gentle into that good night
i see the boys of summer
in my craft or sullen art
incarnate devil
lament

OSCAR WILDE
apologia
chanson
the dole of the king's daughter
flower or love
the harlot's house
helas
her voice
humanitad
impression du matin
my voice
the new remorse
panthea
requiescat
silentium amoris
sonnet on the sale by auction of keat's love letters
taedium vitae
theoretikos
vita nuova

CHARLES WOLFE
the burial of st. john moore at corunna

W.B. YEATS
aedh laments the loss of love
the cat and the moon
the dolls
fallen majesty
forgotten beauty
he wishes his beloved were dead
lines written in dejection
the magi
the second coming
the secret rose
to a shade
the travail of passion
upon a dying lady
when you are old

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