A Little Treasury of Love Poems, from Chaucer to Dylan Thomas |
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... Your lips that seem on roses fed , Your breasts , where Cupid's tumbling lies Nor sleeps for kissing of his bed :A bloomy pair of vermeil cheeks Like Hebe's in her ruddiest hours , A breath that softer music speaks Than summer winds ...
... Your lips that seem on roses fed , Your breasts , where Cupid's tumbling lies Nor sleeps for kissing of his bed :A bloomy pair of vermeil cheeks Like Hebe's in her ruddiest hours , A breath that softer music speaks Than summer winds ...
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All this world's riches that may far be found : If sapphires , lo ! her eyes be sapphires plain ; If rubies , lo ! her lips be rubies sound ; If pearls , her teeth be pearls , both pure and round ; If ivory , her forehead ivory ween ...
All this world's riches that may far be found : If sapphires , lo ! her eyes be sapphires plain ; If rubies , lo ! her lips be rubies sound ; If pearls , her teeth be pearls , both pure and round ; If ivory , her forehead ivory ween ...
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HER LIPS LADY , when I behold the roses sprouting , Which clad in damask mantles deck the arbours , And then behold your lips where sweet love harbours , My eyes present me with a double doubting : For , viewing both alike , hardly my ...
HER LIPS LADY , when I behold the roses sprouting , Which clad in damask mantles deck the arbours , And then behold your lips where sweet love harbours , My eyes present me with a double doubting : For , viewing both alike , hardly my ...
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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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