A Little Treasury of Love Poems, from Chaucer to Dylan Thomas |
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... And the sweet shining signs of women's names That mark the months out and the weeks anew He moves in changeless change of seasons through To fill the days up of his dateless year Flame from Queen Helen to Queen Guenevere ?
... And the sweet shining signs of women's names That mark the months out and the weeks anew He moves in changeless change of seasons through To fill the days up of his dateless year Flame from Queen Helen to Queen Guenevere ?
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LOUISE BOGAN SONG : I FEED A FLAME WITHIN I FEED a flame within , which so torments me , That it both pains my heart , and yet contents me : ' Tis such a pleasing smart , and I so love it , That I had rather die than once remove it .
LOUISE BOGAN SONG : I FEED A FLAME WITHIN I FEED a flame within , which so torments me , That it both pains my heart , and yet contents me : ' Tis such a pleasing smart , and I so love it , That I had rather die than once remove it .
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Sound above all : the cracking and the crocked , As bones that , whetted by the warmer flames , Edged into death , until ... the shame , The vice profusely lavished ; wheeled the bats Silent as we , but crazed , crazed as the flame .
Sound above all : the cracking and the crocked , As bones that , whetted by the warmer flames , Edged into death , until ... the shame , The vice profusely lavished ; wheeled the bats Silent as we , but crazed , crazed as the flame .
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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
Bibliographic information
| 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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