A Little Treasury of Love Poems, from Chaucer to Dylan Thomas |
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Page 132
... superfluous beauty Rules the games , presides over destinies , makes trees grow And hills tower , waves fall . ... and saw the being I loved on every branch ; then that bare tree Stood up with all its branches up , a great harp ...
... superfluous beauty Rules the games , presides over destinies , makes trees grow And hills tower , waves fall . ... and saw the being I loved on every branch ; then that bare tree Stood up with all its branches up , a great harp ...
Page 275
SONG FROM A ELLA O SING unto my roundelay , O drop the briny tear with me ; Dance no more at holyday , Like a running river be : My love is dead , Gone to his death - bed All under the willow - tree . Black his cryne as the winter night ...
SONG FROM A ELLA O SING unto my roundelay , O drop the briny tear with me ; Dance no more at holyday , Like a running river be : My love is dead , Gone to his death - bed All under the willow - tree . Black his cryne as the winter night ...
Page 344
I have gone among brown trees , I have crunched the blue Frost - bitten grass under my feet , I have stood In parted thickets , caught in the crackling leaves , I have seen the brushpiles on the ridges fired , I have watched the twisted ...
I have gone among brown trees , I have crunched the blue Frost - bitten grass under my feet , I have stood In parted thickets , caught in the crackling leaves , I have seen the brushpiles on the ridges fired , I have watched the twisted ...
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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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