THE MUSES
« JUST MET || When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
« ACQUAINTANCES || I summon up remembrance of things past,
« RESPECT || I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
« ALLIES || And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
« FRIENDS || Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow,
« CHILDHOOD PALS || For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
« FAMILY FRIENDS || And weep afresh love's long-since cancell'd woe,
« CLOSE FRIEND || And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight.
« BEST GIRL || Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
« BEST GUY || And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
« CONFIDANTES || The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
« LIKE FAMILY || Which I new pay as if not paid before.
« INSEPARABLE || But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
« SOUL-SIBLING || All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end.
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THE TITANS
« HONORARY FAMILY || They that have power to hurt and will do none,
« DISTANT BLOOD || That do not do the thing they most do show,
« GOD-PARENT || Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
« GOD-CHILD || Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;
« GRANDPARENT || They rightly do inherit heaven's graces
« GRANDCHILD || And husband nature's riches from expense;
« AUNT || They are the lords and owners of their faces,
« UNCLE || Others but stewards of their excellence.
« COUSIN || The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
« NIECE/NEPHEW || Though to itself it only live and die,
« MOTHER || But if that flower with base infection meet,
« FATHER || The basest weed out braves his dignity:
« BROTHER || For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
« SISTER || Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
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THE CHERUBS
« ATTRACTION || Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
« CRUSH ON YOU || Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
« CRUSH ON ABBEY || Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
« INFATUATION || And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
« UNREQUITED || Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
« PAST-PUPPY LOVE || And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
« PAST-BAD TERMS || And every fair from fair sometime declines,
« PAST-GOOD TERMS || By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
« MUTUAL LUST || But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
« BUDDING ROMANCE || Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
« CURRENT LOVE || Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
« FUTURE LOVE || When in eternal lines to time thou growest;
« FINAL LOVE || So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
« SOUL-MATE || So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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THE FURIES
« INDIFFERENT || Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
« DISAGREEMENT || Is lust in action; and till action, lust
« DISTRUST || Is perjur'd, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
« DISGUST || Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
« EX FROM HELL || Enjoy'd no sooner, but despised straight;
« STALKER || Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,
« SADIST || Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait,
« TORMENTOR || On purpose laid to make the taker mad:
« LOVE/HATE || Mad in pursuit, and in possession so;
« DESPISED || Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
« FORMER FRIEND || A bliss in proof,--and prov'd, a very woe;
« TRAITOR || Before, a joy propos'd; behind, a dream:[/i]
« BLOOD-FEUD || All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
« VENDETTA || To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
