First linesFernando Pessoa

  1. As a bad orator, badly o’er-book-skilled, VI
  2. As the lone, frighted user of a night-road XII
  3. As to a child, I talked my heart asleep X
  4. Beauty and love let no one separate, XIX
  5. Even as upon a low and cloud-domed day, XXIII
  6. Far away, far away, Meantime
  7. From the moonlit brink of dreams Spell
  8. Good. I have done. My heart weighs. I am sad. XXXV
  9. Happy the maimed, the halt, the mad, the blind⁠— XXXIV
  10. He that goes back does, since he goes, advance, XXXIII
  11. How can I think, or edge my thoughts to action, V
  12. How many masks wear we, and undermasks, VIII
  13. How yesterday is long ago! The past XXVII
  14. I am older than Nature and her Time XXXI
  15. I could not think of thee as piecèd rot, IV
  16. I do not know what truth the false untruth XXX
  17. If that apparent part of life’s delight II
  18. Indefinite space, which, by co-substance night, XVIII
  19. Like a bad suitor desperate and trembling XV
  20. Like to a ship that storms urge on its course, XI
  21. My love, and not I, is the egoist. XVII
  22. My soul is a stiff pageant, man by man, XXII
  23. My weary life, that lives unsatisfied XXIX
  24. Oh to be idle loving idleness! IX
  25. Set ope all shutters, that the day come in Epithalamium
  26. Something in me was born before the stars XXIV
  27. The edge of the green wave whitely doth hiss XXVIII
  28. The rain outside was cold in Hadrian’s soul. Antinous
  29. The world is woven all of dream and error XXVI
  30. Thought was born blind, but Thought knows what is seeing. XXI
  31. Thy words are torture to me, that scarce grieve thee⁠— VII
  32. We are born at sunset and we die ere morn, XIV
  33. We are in Fate and Fate’s and do but lack XXV
  34. We never joy enjoy to that full point XVI
  35. We pass and dream. Earth smiles. Virtue is rare. Inscriptions
  36. When I do think my meanest line shall be III
  37. When I have sense of what to sense appears, XXXII
  38. When I should be asleep to mine own voice XIII
  39. When in the widening circle of rebirth XX
  40. Whether we write or speak or do but look I

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