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... light from darkness , and most high , In the white front of January there glows The rose - red sign of Helen like a ... light When air is quick with song and rain and flame , My birth - month star that in love's heaven hath name Iseult ...
... light from darkness , and most high , In the white front of January there glows The rose - red sign of Helen like a ... light When air is quick with song and rain and flame , My birth - month star that in love's heaven hath name Iseult ...
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... Light northward to the month whose forehead wears Her name for flower upon it , and his trees Mix their deep English song with Veronese ; And like an awful sovereign chrysolite Burning , the supreme fire that blinds the night , The hot ...
... Light northward to the month whose forehead wears Her name for flower upon it , and his trees Mix their deep English song with Veronese ; And like an awful sovereign chrysolite Burning , the supreme fire that blinds the night , The hot ...
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From Chaucer to Dylan Thomas John Holmes. LIGHT BREAKS WHERE NO SUN SHINES LIGHT breaks where no sun shines ; Where no sea runs , the waters of the heart Push in their tides ; And , broken ghost with glowworms in their heads , The things ...
From Chaucer to Dylan Thomas John Holmes. LIGHT BREAKS WHERE NO SUN SHINES LIGHT breaks where no sun shines ; Where no sea runs , the waters of the heart Push in their tides ; And , broken ghost with glowworms in their heads , The things ...
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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