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But the poetry of love takes each generation's fashion in stride , and the Amelias , Annes , Sheilas , and Jeans , the Biblical names and the nicknames , the parents ' mistakes and the proud family traditions , can all shine and turn ...
But the poetry of love takes each generation's fashion in stride , and the Amelias , Annes , Sheilas , and Jeans , the Biblical names and the nicknames , the parents ' mistakes and the proud family traditions , can all shine and turn ...
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... Would turn to fruitless and unflowering hell ; So sweet that hell , to hell could love be given , Would turn to splendid and sonorous heaven ; Love that is fire within thee and light above , And lives by grace of nothing but of love ...
... Would turn to fruitless and unflowering hell ; So sweet that hell , to hell could love be given , Would turn to splendid and sonorous heaven ; Love that is fire within thee and light above , And lives by grace of nothing but of love ...
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Her life was turning , turning , In mazes of heat and sound . But for peace her soul was yearning , And now peace laps her round . Her cabined , ample spirit , It fluttered and failed for breath . To - night it doth inherit The vasty ...
Her life was turning , turning , In mazes of heat and sound . But for peace her soul was yearning , And now peace laps her round . Her cabined , ample spirit , It fluttered and failed for breath . To - night it doth inherit The vasty ...
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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
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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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