Because I Love You: Poems of Love |
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ALFRED TENNYSON ALICE CARY angels Annie Laurie Better blessed bliss blossoms blow blue breath bright BROWNING cheek dare dark dawn dead dear Love death doth dream earth EDWIN ARNOLD ELIZABETH Evangeline eyes face fair faith feet flowers forever Garden-gates GEORGE BARLOW girl glory gold gone grow hair happy hast hath heard heaven HELEN HUNT JACKSON HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hold JEAN INGELOW JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON life's light lips live looked love thee Love's lovers LUCY LARCOM never night o'er pain PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE PHOEBE CARY pray RICHARD WATSON GILDER rose round sang shadow shine sigh silent sing skies smile soft song sorrow soul speak spring star strong sweet Sweetheart tears tell tender thine thing thou art thought thy love trembling true love voice walk weather wind woman's words
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Page 148 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Page 6 - 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 95 - 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 183 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own!
Page 135 - Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe Long ago; Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame Struck them tame; And that glory and that shame alike, the gold Bought and sold.
Page 169 - There, little girl, don't cry ! There, little girl, don't cry ! They have broken your slate, I know ; And the glad, wild ways Of your school-girl days Are things of the long ago ; But life and love will soon come by — There, little girl, don't cry...
Page 8 - Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en ; The father cracks of horses, pleughs, and kye. The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi...
Page 147 - O days and hours, your work is this, To hold me from my proper place, A little while from his embrace, For fuller gain of after bliss; That out of distance might ensue Desire of nearness doubly sweet, And unto meeting, when we meet, Delight a hundredfold accrue...
Page 136 - While the patching houseleek's head of blossom winks Through the chinks — Marks the basement whence a tower in ancient time Sprang sublime, And a burning ring, all round, the chariots traced As they raced, And the monarch and his minions and his dames Viewed the games.
Page 99 - The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell, And feeling hearts — touch them but lightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before I ANNA KATHARINE ROHLFS.