A Little Treasury of Love Poems: From Chaucer to Dylan ThomasJohn Holmes |
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... pain , That the icy pinnacles of desire Melt , and fires of blood congeal , Till all's the quality of the real . If ... pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire . Pains of Love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures 37 LOVE'S ...
... pain , That the icy pinnacles of desire Melt , and fires of blood congeal , Till all's the quality of the real . If ... pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire . Pains of Love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures 37 LOVE'S ...
Page 342
... pain , torment with care ; Of grief right sure , of joy quite bare , Clean in despair by cruelty . But ha ! ha ! ha ! full well is me , For I am now at liberty . The woeful days so full of pain , The weary nights all spent in vain , The ...
... pain , torment with care ; Of grief right sure , of joy quite bare , Clean in despair by cruelty . But ha ! ha ! ha ! full well is me , For I am now at liberty . The woeful days so full of pain , The weary nights all spent in vain , The ...
Page 368
... pain of passion alone , Aim at you still , that method outgrown . If daily love now takes from these earlier ones The sweetness without the pain , The burning nights , the breathless fears gone , Peace in their place I never hoped to be ...
... pain of passion alone , Aim at you still , that method outgrown . If daily love now takes from these earlier ones The sweetness without the pain , The burning nights , the breathless fears gone , Peace in their place I never hoped to be ...
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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