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MY LOVE IS LIKE TO ICE My love is like to ice , and I to fire : How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire , But harder grows the more I her entreat ? Or how comes it that my exceeding heat ...
MY LOVE IS LIKE TO ICE My love is like to ice , and I to fire : How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire , But harder grows the more I her entreat ? Or how comes it that my exceeding heat ...
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Thicker crowd the shades as the grave East deepens Glowing , and with crimson a long cloud swells , Maiden still the morn is ; and strange she is , and secret ; Strange her eyes ; her cheeks are cold as cold seashells .
Thicker crowd the shades as the grave East deepens Glowing , and with crimson a long cloud swells , Maiden still the morn is ; and strange she is , and secret ; Strange her eyes ; her cheeks are cold as cold seashells .
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY REMEMBRANCE Cold in the earth , and the deep snow piled above thee ! Far , far removed , cold in the dreary grave ! Have I forgot , my only Love , to love thee , Severed at last by Time's all - wearing wave ?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY REMEMBRANCE Cold in the earth , and the deep snow piled above thee ! Far , far removed , cold in the dreary grave ! Have I forgot , my only Love , to love thee , Severed at last by Time's all - wearing wave ?
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Contents
SONG | 7 |
GO LOVELY ROSE Edmund Waller | 8 |
THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES F W Bourdillon | 14 |
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arms beauty birds body breast breath bright cheeks close cold comes dark dead dear death delight desire doth dream ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING eyes face fair fall fear fire flame flowers gentle give gold golden gone grace grow hair hand happy hath head hear heart heaven hope hour JOHN keep kiss lady leave light lips live look love thee love's lovers mind morning move never night once pain pity play pleasure poems praise rest ROBERT rose seemed shadow shine sigh sight silent sing sleep smile soft song soul sound speak spring stars sweet tears tell thee thine thing thou thought touch tree true truth turn unto voice wind wings wish young youth
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| Title | A Little Treasury of Love Poems, from Chaucer to Dylan Thomas Little treasury series |
| Editor | John Holmes |
| Compiled by | John Holmes |
| Illustrated by | Johannes Troyer |
| Publisher | Scribner, 1950 |
| Length | 523 pages |
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