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I ask no dispensation now To falsify a tear , or sigh , or vow ; I do not sue from thee to draw A non obstante on nature's law ; These are prerogatives , they inhere In thee and thine ; none should forswear Except that he Love's minion ...
I ask no dispensation now To falsify a tear , or sigh , or vow ; I do not sue from thee to draw A non obstante on nature's law ; These are prerogatives , they inhere In thee and thine ; none should forswear Except that he Love's minion ...
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I LOVED THEE ONCE I LOVED thee once , I'll love no more , Thine be the grief as is the blame ; Thou art not what thou wast before , What reason I should be the same ? He that can love unloved again , Hath better store of love than brain ...
I LOVED THEE ONCE I LOVED thee once , I'll love no more , Thine be the grief as is the blame ; Thou art not what thou wast before , What reason I should be the same ? He that can love unloved again , Hath better store of love than brain ...
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DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES DRINK to me only with thine eyes , And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup , And I'll not look for wine . The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine ; But might ...
DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES DRINK to me only with thine eyes , And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup , And I'll not look for wine . The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine ; But might ...
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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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