A Little Treasury of Love Poems, from Chaucer to Dylan Thomas |
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Page 23
... A storm - star that the seafarers of love Strain their wind - wearied eyes for glimpses of , Shoots keen through February's grey frost and damp The lamplike star of Hero for a lamp ; The star that Marlowe sang into our skies With ...
... A storm - star that the seafarers of love Strain their wind - wearied eyes for glimpses of , Shoots keen through February's grey frost and damp The lamplike star of Hero for a lamp ; The star that Marlowe sang into our skies With ...
Page 24
... A star south - risen that first to music shone , The keen girl - star of golden Juliet bears Light northward to ... A sun - flower among small sphered flowers of stars , The light of Cleopatra fills and burns The hollow of heaven ...
... A star south - risen that first to music shone , The keen girl - star of golden Juliet bears Light northward to ... A sun - flower among small sphered flowers of stars , The light of Cleopatra fills and burns The hollow of heaven ...
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GO AND CATCH A FALLING STAR Go and catch a falling star , Get with child a mandrake root , Tell me where all past years are , Or who cleft the devil's foot , Teach me to hear mermaids singing , Or to keep off envy's stinging , And find ...
GO AND CATCH A FALLING STAR Go and catch a falling star , Get with child a mandrake root , Tell me where all past years are , Or who cleft the devil's foot , Teach me to hear mermaids singing , Or to keep off envy's stinging , And find ...
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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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