Love Poems – Page 14
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The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
If all the world and love were young, / And truth in every shepherd's tongue, / These pretty pleasures might me move … -
Ah, God, the way your little finger moved
Ah, God, the way your little finger moved / As you thrust a bare arm backward / And made play with your hair … -
Remembrance
Cold in the earth—and the deep snow piled above thee, / Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave! / Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, … -
The Going
Why did you give no hint that night / That quickly after the morrow's dawn, / And calmly, as if indifferent quite, … -
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, / Enwrought with golden and silver light, / The blue and the dim and the dark cloths … -
When You Are Old
When you are old and grey and full of sleep, / And nodding by the fire, take down this book, / And slowly read, and dream of the soft look … -
from I Sing the Body Electric
1 / I sing the body electric, / The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, … -
Love's Secret
Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be; / For the gentle wind doth move … -
Song
For her gait if she be walking, / Be she sitting I desire her / For her state's sake, and admire her … -
To a Young Lady
Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade, / Apt emblem of a virtuous maid! / Silent and chaste she steals along, …
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