A Little Treasury of Love Poems, from Chaucer to Dylan Thomas |
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The wandering airs they faint On the dark , the silent streamThe Champak odors fail Like sweet thoughts in a dream ; The nightingale's complaint , It dies upon her heart ;As I must on thine , Oh , beloved as thou art !
The wandering airs they faint On the dark , the silent streamThe Champak odors fail Like sweet thoughts in a dream ; The nightingale's complaint , It dies upon her heart ;As I must on thine , Oh , beloved as thou art !
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SILENT NOON YOUR hands lie open in the long fresh grass ,The finger - points look through like rosy blooms : Your eyes smile peace . The pasture gleams and glooms ' Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass .
SILENT NOON YOUR hands lie open in the long fresh grass ,The finger - points look through like rosy blooms : Your eyes smile peace . The pasture gleams and glooms ' Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass .
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THE QUARREL SUDDENLY , after the quarrel , while we waited , Disheartened , silent , with downcast looks , nor stirred Eyelid nor finger , hopeless both , yet hoping Against all hope to unsay the sundering word : While all the room's ...
THE QUARREL SUDDENLY , after the quarrel , while we waited , Disheartened , silent , with downcast looks , nor stirred Eyelid nor finger , hopeless both , yet hoping Against all hope to unsay the sundering word : While all the room's ...
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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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