A Little Treasury of Love Poems, from Chaucer to Dylan Thomas |
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... Through silence and through sound of stress and strife , And ebb and flow of dying death and life ; Love , that sounds loud or light in all men's ears , Whence all men's eyes take fire from sparks of tears , That binds on all men's ...
... Through silence and through sound of stress and strife , And ebb and flow of dying death and life ; Love , that sounds loud or light in all men's ears , Whence all men's eyes take fire from sparks of tears , That binds on all men's ...
Page 90
All this world's riches that may far be found : If sapphires , lo ! her eyes be sapphires plain ; If rubies , lo ! her lips be rubies sound ; If pearls , her teeth be pearls , both pure and round ; If ivory , her forehead ivory ween ...
All this world's riches that may far be found : If sapphires , lo ! her eyes be sapphires plain ; If rubies , lo ! her lips be rubies sound ; If pearls , her teeth be pearls , both pure and round ; If ivory , her forehead ivory ween ...
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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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Contents
SONG | 7 |
GO LOVELY ROSE Edmund Waller | 8 |
THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES F W Bourdillon | 14 |
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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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