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• “O, do not wanton with those eyes”

  O, Do not wanton with those eyes,
  Lest I be sick with seeing;
  Nor cast them down, but let them rise, …

  Ben Jonson

• Black and Blue Eyes

  THE Brilliant black eye
  May in triumph let fly
  All its darts without caring who feels ’em; …

  Thomas Moore

• Blue Eyes

  Answer to a Sonnet Ending Thus—
  “Dark eyes are dearer far
  Than those that made the hyacinthine bell.” …

  John Keats

• “O, saw ye the lass?”

  O, Saw ye the lass wi’ the bonny blue een?
  Her smile is the sweetest that ever was seen;
  Her cheek like the rose is, but fresher, I ween; …

  Richard Ryan

• My Sweetheart’s Face

  My kingdom is my sweetheart’s face,
  And these the boundaries I trace:
  Northward her forehead fair; …

  John Allan Wyeth

• Her Guitar

  By the fire that loves to tint her
  Cheeks the color of a rose,
  While the wanton winds of winter …

  Frank Dempster Sherman

• “O, fairest of rural maids!”

  O, Fairest of the rural maids!
  Thy birth was in the forest shades;
  Green boughs, and glimpses of the sky, …

  William Cullen Bryant

• The Milking-Maid

  The Year stood at its equinox,
  And bluff the North was blowing,
  A bleat of lambs came from the flocks, …

  Christina Georgina Rossetti

• Lovely Mary Donnelly

  O Lovely Mary Donnelly, it ’s you I love the best!
  If fifty girls were round you, I ’d hardly see the rest.
  Be what it may the time of day, the place be where it will, …

  William Allingham

• The Irish Spinning-Wheel

  SHOW me a sight,
  Bates for delight
  An ould Irish wheel wid a young Irish girl at it. …

  Alfred Perceval Graves

• The Low-Backed Car

  When first I saw sweet Peggy,
  ’T was on a market day:
  A low-backed car she drove, and sat …

  Samuel Lover

• A Gage D’Amour

  “Martiis cælebs quid agam Kalendis,
  ——— miraris?”
  —Horace iii. 8. …

  Austin Dobson

• An Experience and a Moral

  I Lent my love a book one day;
  She brought it back; I laid it by:
  ’T was little either had to say,— …

  Frederick Swartwout Cozzens

• At the Church-Gate

  Although I enter not,
  Yet round about the spot
  Ofttimes I hover; …

  William Makepeace Thackeray

• The Shepherd and the King

  Ah! what is love? It is a pretty thing,
  As sweet unto a shepherd as a king,
  And sweeter too; …

  Robert Greene

• Love and Woman

  From “Love’s Labor ’s Lost,” Act IV. Sc. 3.
  KING.—But what of this? are we not all in love?
  BIRON.—Nothing so sure; and thereby all forsworn. …

  William Shakespeare

• “Ah, how sweet”

  From “Tyrannic Love,” Act IV. Sc. 1.
  AH, how sweet it is to love!
  Ah, how gay is young desire! …

  John Dryden

• “Welcome, welcome, do I sing”

  Welcome, welcome, do I sing,
  Far more welcome than the spring;
  He that parteth from you never …

  William Browne

• Song: “Love still has something”

  Love still has something of the sea,
  From whence his Mother rose;
  No time his slaves from love can free, …

  Sir Charles Sedley

• “If it be true that any beauteous thing”

  From the Italian by John Edward Taylor
  IF it be true that any beauteous thing
  Raises the pure and just desire of man …

  Michaelangelo

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