A Little Treasury of Love Poems: From Chaucer to Dylan ThomasJohn Holmes |
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... cheeks Like Hebe's in her ruddiest hours , A breath that softer music speaks Than summer winds a - wooing flowers , — These are but gauds : nay , what are lips ? Coral beneath the ocean - stream , Whose brink when your adventurer sips ...
... cheeks Like Hebe's in her ruddiest hours , A breath that softer music speaks Than summer winds a - wooing flowers , — These are but gauds : nay , what are lips ? Coral beneath the ocean - stream , Whose brink when your adventurer sips ...
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... cheek , and o'er that brow , So soft , so calm , yet eloquent , The smiles that win , the tints that glow , But tell ... cheeks which they did cool , And what they undid did . Her gentlewomen , like the Nereides , So many mermaids 82 A ...
... cheek , and o'er that brow , So soft , so calm , yet eloquent , The smiles that win , the tints that glow , But tell ... cheeks which they did cool , And what they undid did . Her gentlewomen , like the Nereides , So many mermaids 82 A ...
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... cheeks , And a rose her mouth . When the happy Yes Falters from her lips , Pass and blush the news O'er the blowing ships . Over blowing seas , Over seas at rest , Pass the happy news , Blush it through the West ; Till the red man dance ...
... cheeks , And a rose her mouth . When the happy Yes Falters from her lips , Pass and blush the news O'er the blowing ships . Over blowing seas , Over seas at rest , Pass the happy news , Blush it through the West ; Till the red man dance ...
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A BOOK OF VERSES | 1 |
William Shakespeare | 8 |
TO LUCASTA GOING TO THE WARS Richard Lovelace | 20 |
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A. E. HOUSMAN arms beauty beauty's BEN JONSON birds blush breast breath bright brow burn cheeks cold dark dead dear death delight dilly doth dream E. E. CUMMINGS EDMUND SPENSER eyes face fair fear fire flame flowers gentle give golden gone grace grief hair hand happy hath hear heaven hour JOHN DONNE JOHN DRYDEN kiss lady let thee go light lips live look LOUISE BOGAN love thee love's lovers maid mind moon morning never night o'er pain PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY pity pleasure poems poetry praise RICHARD LOVELACE ROBERT ROBERT BRIDGES ROBERT HERRICK rose shadow shalt shine sigh silence sing sleep smile soft song soul spring stars summer sweet tears tell thine thing THOMAS CAMPION THOMAS CAREW thou art thought tree true love truth Twas unto voice vows WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wind wings young youth