A Love Gift for ...George Bell, 1841 - Love poetry |
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... Breaking from your iv'ry pale , Need not walk abroad to hear The delightful nightingale . He that looks still on your eyes , Though the winter have begun , To benumb our arteries , Shall not want the summer's sun . He that still may see ...
... Breaking from your iv'ry pale , Need not walk abroad to hear The delightful nightingale . He that looks still on your eyes , Though the winter have begun , To benumb our arteries , Shall not want the summer's sun . He that still may see ...
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... are , Who look for day before his mistress wakes . Awake , awake , break through your vails of lawn ! Then draw your curtains , and begin the dawn . DAVENANT . MADRIGAL . Do but look on her eyes , they 11 Song DAVENANT.
... are , Who look for day before his mistress wakes . Awake , awake , break through your vails of lawn ! Then draw your curtains , and begin the dawn . DAVENANT . MADRIGAL . Do but look on her eyes , they 11 Song DAVENANT.
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... day till thy beauty rise- For the gray morn breaks from thine eyes . FIELD . WOMAN . GONE from her cheek is the summer bloom 21 The Waking Beauty Woman WITHER T MOORE Sonnet Love Confessed The Rose Love's Philosophy Song FIELD.
... day till thy beauty rise- For the gray morn breaks from thine eyes . FIELD . WOMAN . GONE from her cheek is the summer bloom 21 The Waking Beauty Woman WITHER T MOORE Sonnet Love Confessed The Rose Love's Philosophy Song FIELD.
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... doth shew So yellow , green , and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending , yet it doth not break ? I must tell you , these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover . CAREW . LOVE ETERNAL . Ir love be holy , if that 38.
... doth shew So yellow , green , and sickly too ; Ask me why the stalk is weak And bending , yet it doth not break ? I must tell you , these discover What doubts and fears are in a lover . CAREW . LOVE ETERNAL . Ir love be holy , if that 38.
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... Outshone the sun through darkness breaking . Oh come ! oh come ! Hours like this are quickly fled , But thy fond smile a joy can shed Which melts not thus away ! DALE . HAPPINESS IN THE GOLDEN AGE . ALL things were common 40.
... Outshone the sun through darkness breaking . Oh come ! oh come ! Hours like this are quickly fled , But thy fond smile a joy can shed Which melts not thus away ! DALE . HAPPINESS IN THE GOLDEN AGE . ALL things were common 40.
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A. A. WATTS Adonis ANACREON BARRY CORNWALL beds of roses BEN JONSON beneath bloom blush bosom breast breath bright brow BULWER CANZONET charms cheek crest Cupid dear device death delight divine doth e'en earth eyes fair fear flame flowers fragrant gaze gentle glow hair hath heaven hour J. S. KNOWLES Kate of Aberdeen kiss LANDON light live look lost to sight LOVE ETERNAL Love's lover lute maid MELEAGER morn mourn mournful girl MUNROE nature's ne'er night NYMPH'S o'er pale passion perfume pleasure Prethee RALEIGH rapture remembrance of Thee roses rosy seal SHAKSPERE sigh sing sleep smile soft SONG SONNET sorrow soul spring star STRANGFORD summer sweet remembrance SWEET Violets T. B. SMITH tears tell thine thou thought thy beauty thy heart thy love thy truth relying tresses VENUS AND ADONIS violets wanton watchful night wear woman Young love young sinner youth
Popular passages
Page 49 - A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. ' A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page 21 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 33 - These flowers, as in their causes, sleep. Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day ; For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more whither doth haste The nightingale, when May is past ; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters, and keeps warm her note. Ask me no more where those stars 'light That downwards fall in dead of night ; For in your eyes they sit, and there Fixed become, as in their sphere. Ask me no more if east or west The...
Page 71 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 34 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A Violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 54 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast...
Page 43 - On a Girdle That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, The pale which held that lovely deer: My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move. A narrow compass ! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair! Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round!
Page 49 - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, 10 A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle...
Page 32 - 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 spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?
Page 16 - Sheds itself through the face, As alone there triumphs to the life All the gain, all the good, of the elements