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• Passion and Love

  A Maiden wept and, as a comforter,
  Came one who cried, "I love thee,"
  and he seized …

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Valentine Song

  Dearest, let these roses
  In their purity,
  Be a present symbol …

  Robert Argyle Campbell

• To His Coy Mistress

  Had we but world enough, and time,
  This coyness, lady, were no crime.
  We would sit down and think which way …

  Andrew Marvell

• If You Were Coming in the Fall

  If you were coming in the fall,
  I'd brush the summer by
  With half a smile and half a spurn, …

  Emily Dickinson

• For Each Ecstatic Instant

  For each ecstatic instant
  We must an anguish pay
  In keen and quivering ratio …

  Emily Dickinson

• I Lost a World

  I lost a World - the other day!
  Has Anybody found?
  You'll know it by the Row of Stars …

  Emily Dickinson

• You Left Me, Sweet, Two Legacies

  You left me, sweet, two legacies,--
  A legacy of love
  A Heavenly Father would content, …

  Emily Dickinson

• Season of Love

  When Spring in sunny woodland lay,
  And gilded buds were sparely set
  On oak tree and the thorny may, …

  Isabella Valancy Crawford

• To Mary

  The twentieth year is well-nigh past,
  Since first our sky was overcast;
  Ah, would that this might be the last! …

  William Cowper

• If Grief for Grief can Touch Thee

  If grief for grief can touch thee,
  If answering woe for woe,
  If any truth can melt thee …

  Emily Bronte

• Beautiful Dreamer

  Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
  Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
  Sounds of the rude world heard in the day, …

  Stephen Foster

• Rose Aylmer

  Ah, what avails the sceptred race!
  Ah, what the form divine!
  What every virtue, every grace! …

  Walter Savage Landor

• Proud Word You Never Spoke

  Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak
  Four not exempt from pride some future day.
  Resting on one white hand a warm wet cheek, …

  Walter Savage Landor

• A Farewell

  With all my will, but much against my heart,
  We two now part.
  My Very Dear, …

  Coventry Patmore

• I Loved a Lass

  I Loved a lass, a fair one,
  As fair as e'er was seen;
  She was indeed a rare one, …

  George Wither

• Reluctance

  Out through the fields and the woods
  And over the walls I have wended;
  I have climbed the hills of view …

  Robert Frost

• So We'll Go No More a Roving

  So, we'll go no more a roving
  So late into the night,
  Though the heart be still as loving, …

  Lord Byron

• When I Was One-and-Twenty

  When I was one-and-twenty
  I heard a wise man say,
  ‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas …

  A. E. Housman

• Why is the Rose so Pale

  Ah Dearest, canst thou tell me why
  The Rose should be so pale?
  And why the azure Violet …

  Heinrich Heine

• Of Pearls and Stars

  The pearly treasures of the sea,
  The lights that spatter heaven above,
  More precious than these wonders are …

  Heinrich Heine

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