A Little Treasury of Love Poems, from Chaucer to Dylan Thomas |
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WHO EVER LOVED , THAT LOVED NOT AT FIRST SIGHT ? It lies not in our power to love or hate , For will in us is overruled by fate . When two are stripped , long ere the course begin , We wish that one should lose , the other win ; And one ...
WHO EVER LOVED , THAT LOVED NOT AT FIRST SIGHT ? It lies not in our power to love or hate , For will in us is overruled by fate . When two are stripped , long ere the course begin , We wish that one should lose , the other win ; And one ...
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Or have charged his sight of crime , To have left all sight for you . Guess of these which is the true ; And if such a verse as this May not claim another kiss . BEN JONSON LAVY LOVE ME LITTLE , LOVE ME LONG LOVE me little , love me ...
Or have charged his sight of crime , To have left all sight for you . Guess of these which is the true ; And if such a verse as this May not claim another kiss . BEN JONSON LAVY LOVE ME LITTLE , LOVE ME LONG LOVE me little , love me ...
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Could they remember but last year , How you did them , they you delight , The sprouting leaves which saw you here , And called their fellows to the sight , Would , looking round for the same sight in vain , Creep back into their silent ...
Could they remember but last year , How you did them , they you delight , The sprouting leaves which saw you here , And called their fellows to the sight , Would , looking round for the same sight in vain , Creep back into their silent ...
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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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