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GEORGE DARLEY MENDACITY TRUTH is love and love is truth , Either neither in good sooth : Truth is truth and love is love , Give us grace to taste thereof ; But if truth offend my sweet , Then I will have none of it , And if love offend ...
GEORGE DARLEY MENDACITY TRUTH is love and love is truth , Either neither in good sooth : Truth is truth and love is love , Give us grace to taste thereof ; But if truth offend my sweet , Then I will have none of it , And if love offend ...
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And if love offend the other , Farewell truth , I will not bother . Happy truth when truth accords With the love in lovers ' words ! Harm not truth in any part , But keep its shadow from love's heart . Men must love , though lovers ...
And if love offend the other , Farewell truth , I will not bother . Happy truth when truth accords With the love in lovers ' words ! Harm not truth in any part , But keep its shadow from love's heart . Men must love , though lovers ...
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TRUTH DOTH TRUTH DESERVE Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be , First be he true , for truth doth truth deserve : Then such be he as she his worth may see , And one man still credit with her preserve .
TRUTH DOTH TRUTH DESERVE Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be , First be he true , for truth doth truth deserve : Then such be he as she his worth may see , And one man still credit with her preserve .
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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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