Poems of love, pt. 1Holt, 1912 - Poetry |
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... dream , Doted on a silver swan ; Danaë , in a brazen tower , Where no love was , loved a shower . Hear , ye ladies ... dreaming loose desires , Doting at the altar dies ; Ilion , in a short hour , higher He can build , and once more fire ...
... dream , Doted on a silver swan ; Danaë , in a brazen tower , Where no love was , loved a shower . Hear , ye ladies ... dreaming loose desires , Doting at the altar dies ; Ilion , in a short hour , higher He can build , and once more fire ...
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... dream . While each bewailing The other's failing , With wrath and railing , All hideous seem- While first decreasing , Yet not quite ceasing , Wait not till teasing All passion blight : If once diminished Love's reign is finished- Then ...
... dream . While each bewailing The other's failing , With wrath and railing , All hideous seem- While first decreasing , Yet not quite ceasing , Wait not till teasing All passion blight : If once diminished Love's reign is finished- Then ...
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... dream that his faith is fast , Through behoving and unbehoving ; Unless you can die when the dream is past— Oh , never call it loving ! Elizabeth Barrett Browning [ 1806-1861 ] " LOVE HATH A LANGUAGE " From " To My Son " LOVE hath a ...
... dream that his faith is fast , Through behoving and unbehoving ; Unless you can die when the dream is past— Oh , never call it loving ! Elizabeth Barrett Browning [ 1806-1861 ] " LOVE HATH A LANGUAGE " From " To My Son " LOVE hath a ...
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... dreams through its dim fields dart , And sleep's are the tunes in its tree - tops heard ; No hound's note wakens the wildwood hart , Only the song of a secret bird . ENVOI In the world of dreams I have chosen my part , To sleep for a ...
... dreams through its dim fields dart , And sleep's are the tunes in its tree - tops heard ; No hound's note wakens the wildwood hart , Only the song of a secret bird . ENVOI In the world of dreams I have chosen my part , To sleep for a ...
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... dream , nor fate , nor circumstance . Love is not born of blinded chance , Nor bred in simple ignorance . Love is the flower of maidenhood ; Love is the fruit of mortal pain ; And she hath winter in her blood . True love is steadfast as ...
... dream , nor fate , nor circumstance . Love is not born of blinded chance , Nor bred in simple ignorance . Love is the flower of maidenhood ; Love is the fruit of mortal pain ; And she hath winter in her blood . True love is steadfast as ...
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Popular passages
Page 563 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 562 - Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields.
Page 755 - She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, — • ' Now tread we a measure !
Page 583 - When Love with unconfine'd wings Hovers within my Gates ; And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The Birds, that wanton in the Air, Know no such Liberty.
Page 711 - The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser. Agin the chimbley crook-necks hung, An' in amongst 'em rusted The ole queen's-arm thet gran'ther Young Fetched back from Concord busted. The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceilin', An' she looked full ez rosy agin Ez the apples she was peelin'.
Page 691 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: 20 Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 563 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move, To come to thee and be thy love.
Page 585 - TO HIS COY MISTRESS Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side 5 Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain.
Page 662 - Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle.
Page 633 - Or ever the knightly years were gone, With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon, And you were a Christian slave.