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... love songs . Robert Burns wrote most of them , we discover . And then ? Then he turns back and begins again , and reads of love's riddles , of love's vows , of love's endearing young charms , of love's rosy wreaths , again and again . In ...
... love songs . Robert Burns wrote most of them , we discover . And then ? Then he turns back and begins again , and reads of love's riddles , of love's vows , of love's endearing young charms , of love's rosy wreaths , again and again . In ...
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... thou never gavest it : Love's riddles are , that though thy heart depart , It stays at home , and thou with losing savest it : But we will have a way more liberal , Than 3 LOVE'S RIDDLES : Definitions of Love LOVE'S INFINITENESS.
... thou never gavest it : Love's riddles are , that though thy heart depart , It stays at home , and thou with losing savest it : But we will have a way more liberal , Than 3 LOVE'S RIDDLES : Definitions of Love LOVE'S INFINITENESS.
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From Chaucer to Dylan Thomas John Holmes. LOVE'S DEITY I LONG to talk with some old lover's ghost , Who died before the god of love was born : I cannot think that he , who then loved most , Sunk so low , as to love one which did scorn ...
From Chaucer to Dylan Thomas John Holmes. LOVE'S DEITY I LONG to talk with some old lover's ghost , Who died before the god of love was born : I cannot think that he , who then loved most , Sunk so low , as to love one which did scorn ...
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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