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"We were both young when I first saw you, I close my eyes and the flashback starts I'm standing there on a balcony in summer air"
Love Story by Taylor Swift
"Crawling up the beaches now, Sir, I think he's bleeding out, And some things you just can't speak about"
Epiphany by Taylor Swift
"Greet was the feeste in Atthenes that day, and eek the lusty seson of that May"
The Knights Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
"Beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade"
Invictus by W. E. Henley
"Your Midas touch on the Chevy door, November flush and your flannel cure."
Champagne Problems by Taylor Swift
"The stars are not wanted now, put out every one, pack up the moon and dismantle the sun."
Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden
"You’re not Dylan Thomas, I’m not Patti Smith, this ain’t the Chelsea Hotel, we’re modern idiots."
The Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift
"Yet their hands would twine unseen, in a clasp ’twere hard to sever"
The Love Sin by Lady Jane Wilde
"We hereby conduct this post-mortem, he was a hothouse flower to my outdoorsman, our maladies were such we could not cure them, and so a touch that was my birthright became foreign"
How Did It End? by Taylor Swift
"But physically yet could never reach the maladies thou me dost teach."
A Dialogue Between Body and Soul by Andrew Marvell
"You gave me hyacinths first a year ago, they called me the hyacinth girl."
The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot
"You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath."
All Too Well by Taylor Swift
"My babe so beautiful, it thrills my heart with tender gladness"
Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"If long suffering propriety is what they want from me,
they don't know how you've haunted me so stunningly. I choose you and me religiously."
Guilty as Sin by Taylor Swift
"Half a league, half a league, half a league onward."
Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Tennyson
"Say it once again with feeling, how the death rattle breathing, silenced as the soul was leaving"
How Did It End? by Taylor Swift
"Tell that its sculptor well those passions read, which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"
Ozymandias by Percy Shelly
"Wise men once said wild winds are death to the candle. A rose by any other name is a scandal"
The Albatross by Taylor Swift
"Happy moments, which again brought sweet torments in their train. All love’s petulance and fears, wayward doubts and tender tears."
The Love Sin by Lady Jane Wilde
"And I won't confess that I waited, but I let the lamp burn as the men masqueraded, I hoped you'd return
with your feet on the ground, tell me all that you'd learned because love's never lost when perspective is earned"
Peter by Taylor Swift
"The forward youth that would appear must now forsake his muses dear"
An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland by Andrew Marvell
"Soldier down on that icy ground, looked up at me with honor and truth, broken and blue, so I called off the troops, that was the night I nearly lost you "
The Great War by Taylor Swift
"Thy beauty shall no more be found, nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound my echoing song"
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
"How's one to know? I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones in a faith forgotten land"
Ivy by Taylor Swift
"The frost performs its secret ministry, unhelped by any wind."
Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge