For Love's Sweet Sake: Selected Poems of Love in All MoodsGeorge Hembert Westley |
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For Love's Sweet Sake: Selected Poems of Love in All Moods George Hembert Westley No preview available - 2009 |
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beauty bliss blossom breast breath bright charm clasp CLEMENT SCOTT cold dark darling deep doth dream eyes F. W. BOURDILLON face fair farewell fate fear feel flowers forever forget G. H. WESTLEY GERALD MASSEY give golden good-by H. C. BEECHING Hamilton Aïdé hand happy Hast thou forgotten hath hear heaven Helen Hunt Jackson hope J. B. B. NICHOLS JOHN ADCOCK JOHN WILBYE kiss life's light lips live lonely look love thee LOVE'S SWEET SAKE Mary Berri Chapman MARY COWDEN CLARKE meet memory never night o'er OWEN MEREDITH pain passion pity regret RICHARD JAGO rose shine sigh sings smile song sorrow soul stars sweetheart tears tell tender thine things THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS thou art thou be long thou hast thou wert thought thy bride thy heart to-day to-night touch true voice weary weep whispers words
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Page 79 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, "Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
Page 16 - Our love was like most other loves — A little glow, a little shiver, A rosebud and a pair of gloves, And " Fly Not Yet " upon the river ; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted, A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows ; and then we parted.
Page 50 - Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you ; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you ; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving ; Unless you can die when the dream is past — Oh, never call it loving ! A MAN'S REQUIREMENTS.
Page 85 - THE night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Page 136 - Forget thee.?" — Bid the forest-birds forget their sweetest tune ! " Forget thee?" — Bid the sea forget to swell beneath the moon ; Bid the thirsty flowers forget to drink the eve's refreshing dew ; Thyself forget thine
Page 136 - FORGET thee?" — If to dream by night, and muse on thee by day, If all the worship, deep and wild, a poet's heart can pay, If prayers in absence breathed for thee to Heaven's protecting power, If winged thoughts that flit to thee — a thousand in an hour, If busy Fancy blending thee with all my future lot, — If this thou call'st " forgetting," thou indeed shalt be forgot ! "Forget thee?
Page 51 - Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought, Love gives itself, but is not bought; Nor voice, nor sound betrays Its deep, impassioned gaze. It comes, — the beautiful, the free, The crown of all humanity, — In silence and alone To seek the elected one. It lifts the boughs, whose shadows deep Are Life's oblivion, the soul's sleep. And kisses the closed eyes Of him, who slumbering lies. O weary hearts ! O slumbering eyes ! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again...
Page 44 - When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee ; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea...
Page 150 - LOve in her Sunny Eyes does basking play ; Love walks the pleasant Mazes of her Hair ; Love does on both her Lips for ever stray ; And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there.
Page 55 - Look deeper still. If thou canst feel Within thy inmost soul, That thou hast kept a portion back, While I have staked the whole; Let no false pity spare the blow, but in true mercy tell me so. Is there within thy heart a need That mine cannot fulfil? One chord that any other hand Could better wake or still? Speak now - lest at some future day my whole life wither and decay.