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Tis visible silence , still as the hour - glass . Deep in the sun - searched growths the dragon - fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky :So this winged hour is dropped to us from above . Oh ! clasp we to our hearts ...
Tis visible silence , still as the hour - glass . Deep in the sun - searched growths the dragon - fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky :So this winged hour is dropped to us from above . Oh ! clasp we to our hearts ...
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O how feeble is man's power , That , if good fortune fall , Cannot add another hour , Nor a lost hour recall ! But come bad chance , And we join to it our strength , And we teach it art and length , Itself o'er us to advance .
O how feeble is man's power , That , if good fortune fall , Cannot add another hour , Nor a lost hour recall ! But come bad chance , And we join to it our strength , And we teach it art and length , Itself o'er us to advance .
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GREEN GROW THE RASHES GREEN grow the rashes , 0 ; Green grow the rashes , 0 ; The sweetest hours that e'er I spend , Are spent amang the lasses , O. There's nought but care on every han ' , In hour that passes , O : What signifies the ...
GREEN GROW THE RASHES GREEN grow the rashes , 0 ; Green grow the rashes , 0 ; The sweetest hours that e'er I spend , Are spent amang the lasses , O. There's nought but care on every han ' , In hour that passes , O : What signifies the ...
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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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