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A time comes in love , as lovers know , when the name , the sight of the loved one , walking , dancing , sleeping , is its utmost beautiful embodiment . Praise crowds the poet's mind , and he cries out , “ There be none of beauty's dies ...
A time comes in love , as lovers know , when the name , the sight of the loved one , walking , dancing , sleeping , is its utmost beautiful embodiment . Praise crowds the poet's mind , and he cries out , “ There be none of beauty's dies ...
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JOHN CLARE COME NIGHT , COME ROMEO COME night ; come , Romeo ; come , thou day in night ; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.Come , gentle night , -come , loving , black - brow'd night ...
JOHN CLARE COME NIGHT , COME ROMEO COME night ; come , Romeo ; come , thou day in night ; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.Come , gentle night , -come , loving , black - brow'd night ...
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Chloe , why wish you that your years . ..153 Cold in the earth , and the deep snow piled above thee . .437 Come hither Womankind and all their worth ..... ..116 Come into the garden , Maud ... .180 Come , let us now resolve at last ...
Chloe , why wish you that your years . ..153 Cold in the earth , and the deep snow piled above thee . .437 Come hither Womankind and all their worth ..... ..116 Come into the garden , Maud ... .180 Come , let us now resolve at last ...
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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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