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Page 133
There I saw the face of the one without whom I lived , two soft jewels implanted in her face , Her hair pouring around her face without sound , And her love for me sprang on her skin like dew , Pearl - grey as the flower of the brain ...
There I saw the face of the one without whom I lived , two soft jewels implanted in her face , Her hair pouring around her face without sound , And her love for me sprang on her skin like dew , Pearl - grey as the flower of the brain ...
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... with eternal lids apart , Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite , The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores , Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the ...
... with eternal lids apart , Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite , The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores , Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the ...
Page 437
MUSIC , WHEN SOFT VOICES DIE Music , when soft voices die , Vibrates in the memoryOdors , when sweet violets sicken , Live within the sense they quicken . Rose leaves , when the rose is dead , Are heaped for the beloved's bed ; And so ...
MUSIC , WHEN SOFT VOICES DIE Music , when soft voices die , Vibrates in the memoryOdors , when sweet violets sicken , Live within the sense they quicken . Rose leaves , when the rose is dead , Are heaped for the beloved's bed ; And so ...
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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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