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Where rivers smoothest run , deep are the fords ; The dial stirs , yet none perceives it move ; The firmest faith is in the fewest words ; The turtles cannot sing , and yet they love : True hearts have eyes and ears , no tongues to ...
Where rivers smoothest run , deep are the fords ; The dial stirs , yet none perceives it move ; The firmest faith is in the fewest words ; The turtles cannot sing , and yet they love : True hearts have eyes and ears , no tongues to ...
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THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD If all the world and love were young , And truth in every shepherd's tongue , These pretty pleasures might me move , To live with thee and be thy love . Time drives the flocks from field to fold ...
THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD If all the world and love were young , And truth in every shepherd's tongue , These pretty pleasures might me move , To live with thee and be thy love . Time drives the flocks from field to fold ...
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Will , when looking well can't move her , Looking ill prevail ? Prithee why so pale ? Why so dull and mute , young sinner ? Prithee why so mute ? Will , when speaking well can't win her , Saying nothing do't ? Prithee why so mute ?
Will , when looking well can't move her , Looking ill prevail ? Prithee why so pale ? Why so dull and mute , young sinner ? Prithee why so mute ? Will , when speaking well can't win her , Saying nothing do't ? Prithee why so mute ?
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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
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| 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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