You gave me the key to your heart, my love;
Then why do you make me knock?
"Oh, that was yesterday, saints above;
Last night I changed the lock!"
-- John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890
Pray, and all your sins are hooked upon the sky.
Pray, and the heathen lie will disappear.
Prayers, they hide the saddest views,
Believing the strangest things, Loving the alien.
-- David Bowie
The Moon like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
with silent delight,
sits and smiles on the night.
-- William Blake
When you're lying awake with a dismal headache
And repose is taboo'd by anxiety,
I conceive you may use any language you choose
To indulge in without impropriety.
-- W.S. Gilbert
Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now,
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.
-- Cole Porter
If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And of thy slender store two loaves alone are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.
-- Sadie