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• Othello’s Defence

  From “Othello,” Act I. Sc. 3.
  OTHELLO.—Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,
  My very noble and approved good masters,— …

  William Shakespeare

• The Earl o’ Quarterdeck

  A New Old Ballad
  THE WIND it blew, and the ship it flew;
  And it was “Hey for hame! …

  George MacDonald

• Aux Italiens

  At Paris it was, at the opera there;
  And she looked like a queen in a book that night,
  With the wreath of pearl in her raven hair, …

  E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton

• “Let not woman e’er complain”

  Let not woman e’er complain
  Of inconstancy in love;
  Let not woman e’er complain …

  Robert Burns

• A Woman’s Answer

  I Will not let you say a woman’s part
  Must be to give exclusive love alone;
  Dearest, although I love you so, my heart …

  Adelaide Anne Procter

• Love’s Blindness

  Sonnet Cxlviii.
  o ME! what eyes hath Love put in my head
  Which have no correspondence with true sight! …

  William Shakespeare

• “Full many a glorious morning”

  Sonnet Xxxiii.
  full many a glorious morning have I seen
  Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, …

  William Shakespeare

• “Alexis, here she stayed”

  Alexis, here she stayed; among these pines,
  Sweet hermitress, she did alone repair;
  Here did she spread the treasure of her hair, …

  William Drummond, of Hawthornden

• Rivalry in Love

  Of all the torments, all the cares,
  With which our lives are curst;
  Of all the plagues a lover bears, …

  William Walsh

• “My dear and only love”

  Part First
  my dear and only love, I pray,
  This noble world of thee …

  James Graham, Marquis of Montrose

• The Faithful Lovers

  I ’d been away from her three years,—about that,
  And I returned to find my Mary true;
  And though I ’d question her, I did not doubt that …

  Anonymous

• The Chronicle

  Margarita first possessed,
  If I remember well, my breast,
  Margarita first of all; …

  Abraham Cowley

• The Age of Wisdom

  Ho! pretty page, with the dimpled chin,
  That never has known the barber’s shear,
  All your wish is woman to win; …

  William Makepeace Thackeray

• The Common Doom

  Victorious men of earth, no more
  Proclaim how wide your empires are:
  Though you bind in every shore, …

  James Shirley

• The Author’s Resolution, in a Sonnet

  From “Fair Virtue”
  SHALL I, wasting in despair,
  Die, because a woman ’s Fair? …

  George Wither

• Answer to Master Wither’s Song, “Shall I, Wasting in Despair”

  [Wither’s Song, or “Sonnet,” appeared first in his “Fidelia” in 1615, and later with some changes in “Fair Virtue,” 1622. Jonson’s parody, here given, came out in a Collection of Verses, in 1620.]
  SHALL I mine affections slack,
  ’Cause I see a woman’s Black? …

  Ben Jonson

• Forever Unconfessed

  They seemed to those who saw them meet
  The worldly friends of every day,
  Her smile was undisturbed and sweet, …

  Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

• Advice to a Girl

  Never love unless you can
  Bear with all the faults of man!
  Men sometimes will jealous be …

  Thomas Campion

• Waiting for the Grapes

  That I love thee, charming maid, I a thousand times have said,
  And a thousand times more I have sworn it,
  But ’t is easy to be seen in the coldness of your mien …

  William Maginn

• “Give me more love or more disdain”

  Give me more love or more disdain;
  The torrid or the frozen zone
  Brings equal ease unto my pain; …

  Thomas Carew

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