A Little Treasury of Love Poems: From Chaucer to Dylan ThomasJohn Holmes |
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... head of Maytime ; and for June Flares like an angered and storm - reddening moon Her signal sphere , whose Carthaginian pyre Shadowed her traitor's flying sail with fire ; Next , glittering as the wine - bright jacinth - stone , A star ...
... head of Maytime ; and for June Flares like an angered and storm - reddening moon Her signal sphere , whose Carthaginian pyre Shadowed her traitor's flying sail with fire ; Next , glittering as the wine - bright jacinth - stone , A star ...
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... head , and scatter day ! RICHARD LOVELACE HE JESTS AT SCARS , THAT NEVER FELT A WOUND HE jests at scars , that never felt a wound . But , soft ! what light through yonder window breaks ? It is the east , and Juliet is the sun ! Arise ...
... head , and scatter day ! RICHARD LOVELACE HE JESTS AT SCARS , THAT NEVER FELT A WOUND HE jests at scars , that never felt a wound . But , soft ! what light through yonder window breaks ? It is the east , and Juliet is the sun ! Arise ...
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... head . Hark , how the cheerful birds do chant their lays And carol of love's praise . The merry lark her matins sings aloft ; The thrush replies ; the mavis descant plays ; The ouzel shrills ; the ruddock warbles soft ; So goodly all ...
... head . Hark , how the cheerful birds do chant their lays And carol of love's praise . The merry lark her matins sings aloft ; The thrush replies ; the mavis descant plays ; The ouzel shrills ; the ruddock warbles soft ; So goodly all ...
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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