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• Affaire d’Amour

  For E. W. W.
  ONE pale November day
  Flying Summer paused, …

  Margaret Deland

• A Woman’s Question

  Before I trust my fate to thee,
  Or place my hand in thine,
  Before I let thy future give …

  Adelaide Anne Procter

• “Not at all, or all in all”

  From “Merlin and Vivien”
  IN Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours,
  Faith and unfaith can ne’er be equal powers; …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• “When do I see thee most?”

  From “The House of Life”
  WHEN do I see thee most, belovèd one?
  When in the light the spirits of mine eyes …

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Beauty

  ’t Is much immortal beauty to admire,
  But more immortal beauty to withstand;
  The perfect soul can overcome desire, …

  Edward Hovell-Thurlow, Lord Thurlow

• “My sweet sweeting”

  From a MS. Temp. Henry VIII.
  AH, my sweet sweeting;
  My little pretty sweeting, …

  Anonymous

• Lines to an Indian Air

  Serenade
  I Arise from dreams of thee
  In the first sweet sleep of night, …

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere

  Like souls that balance joy and pain,
  With tears and smiles from heaven again
  The maiden Spring upon the plain …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• “I saw two clouds at morning”

  I Saw two clouds at morning,
  Tinged by the rising sun,
  And in the dawn they floated on, …

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

• My Beautiful Lady

  I Love my Lady; she is very fair;
  Her brow is wan, and bound by simple hair;
  Her spirit sits aloof, and high, …

  Thomas Woolner

• My Love

  (Her Portrait)
  MY love is beautiful and sweet.
  All good and gentle graces meet …

  Russell Powell Jacoby

• A Christmas Scene

  Or, Love in the Country
  I.
  THE HILL blast comes howling through leaf-rifted trees …

  Thomas Osborne Davis

• Bedouin Love-Song

  From the Desert I come to thee,
  On a stallion shod with fire;
  And the winds are left behind …

  Bayard Taylor

• Zara’s Ear-Rings

  From the Spanish
  “MY ear-rings! my ear-rings! they ’ve dropt into the well,
  And what to say to Muça, I cannot, cannot tell.” …

  John Gibson Lockhart

• Hesperia

  Out of the golden remote wild west where the sea without shore is,
  Full of the sunset, and sad, if at all, with the fulness of joy,
  As a wind sets in with the autumn that blows from the region of stories, …

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• “Come into the garden, Maud”

  Come into the garden, Maud,
  For the black bat, night, has flown!
  Come into the garden, Maud, …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• “When your beauty appears”

  “WHEN your beauty appears,
  In its graces and airs,
  All bright as an angel new dropt from the skies, …

  Thomas Parnell

• Palabras Cariñosas

  (Spanish Air)
  GOOD-NIGHT! I have to say good-night
  To such a host of peerless things! …

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• Seven times Three

  Love
  I Leaned out of window, I smelt the white clover,
  Dark, dark was the garden, I saw not the gate; …

  Jean Ingelow

• When the Kye comes Hame

  Come, all ye jolly shepherds
  That whistle through the glen,
  I ’ll tell ye of a secret …

  James Hogg

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