A Little Treasury of Love Poems, from Chaucer to Dylan Thomas |
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SIR JOHN SUCKLING LOVE'S EXCHANGE LOVE , any devil else but you Would for a given soul give something too . At court your fellows every day Give the art of rhyming , huntsmanship , or play , For them which were their own before ; Only I ...
SIR JOHN SUCKLING LOVE'S EXCHANGE LOVE , any devil else but you Would for a given soul give something too . At court your fellows every day Give the art of rhyming , huntsmanship , or play , For them which were their own before ; Only I ...
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JOHN DONNE I CARE NOT FOR THESE LADIES I CARE not for these ladies That must be wooed and prayed , Give me kind Amaryllis , The wanton country maid . Nature art disdaineth , Her beauty is her own . Her when we court and kiss , She cries ...
JOHN DONNE I CARE NOT FOR THESE LADIES I CARE not for these ladies That must be wooed and prayed , Give me kind Amaryllis , The wanton country maid . Nature art disdaineth , Her beauty is her own . Her when we court and kiss , She cries ...
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Give them gold that sell love , Give me the nut - brown lass , Who when we court and kiss , She cries , “ Forsooth , let go ! ” But when we come where comfort is , She never will say no . These ladies must have pillows And beds by ...
Give them gold that sell love , Give me the nut - brown lass , Who when we court and kiss , She cries , “ Forsooth , let go ! ” But when we come where comfort is , She never will say no . These ladies must have pillows And beds by ...
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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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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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