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• Friendship

  From “Hamlet,” Act III. Sc. 2.
  HAMLET.—Horatio, thou art e’en as just a man
  As e’er my conversation coped withal. …

  William Shakespeare

• “We have been friends together”

  We have been friends together
  In sunshine and in shade,
  Since first beneath the chestnut-tree …

  Caroline Elizabeth Sarah

• “Jenny kissed me”

  JENNY 1 kissed me when we met,
  Jumping from the chair she sat in.
  Time, you thief! who love to get …

  Leigh Hunt

• The Garret

  With pensive eyes the little room I view,
  Where, in my youth, I weathered it so long;
  With a wild mistress, a stanch friend or two, …

  William Makepeace Thackeray

• Mors et Vita

  We know not yet what life shall be,
  What shore beyond earth’s shore be set;
  What grief awaits us, or what glee, …

  Samuel Waddington

• Constancy

  Out upon it. I have loved
  Three whole days together;
  And am like to love three more, …

  Sir John Suckling

• Spring

  From the Greek by Andrew Lang
  NOW the bright crocus flames, and now
  The slim narcissus takes the rain, …

  Meleager of Gadara

• Song

  From the German by Edgar Taylor
  WHEN from the sod the flowerets spring,
  And smile to meet the sun’s bright ray, …

  Walther von der Vogelweide

• “She walks in beauty”

  “Hebrew Melodies”
  SHE walks in beauty, like the night
  Of cloudless climes and starry skies, …

  Lord Byron

• “She is not fair to outward view”

  She is not fair to outward view,
  As many maidens be;
  Her loveliness I never knew …

  Hartley Coleridge

• “Go, lovely rose”

  GO, lovely rose!
  Tell her that wastes her time and me,
  That now she knows, …

  Edmund Waller

• To a Lady

  On Her Art of Growing Old Gracefully
  YOU ask a verse, to sing (ah, laughing face!)
  Your happy art of growing old with grace? …

  John James Piatt

• Love

  From “The Merchant of Venice,” Act III. Sc. 2.
  TELL me where is fancy bred,
  Or in the heart, or in the head? …

  William Shakespeare

• “Love is a sickness”

  Love is a sickness full of woes,
  All remedies refusing;
  A plant that most with cutting grows, …

  Samuel Daniel

• Love

  From “Hero and Leander”
  IT lies not in our power to love or hate,
  For will in us is over-ruled by fate. …

  Christopher Marlowe

• Love

  From the “Lay of the Last Minstrel,” Canto III.
  AND said I that my limbs were old,
  And said I that my blood was cold, …

  Sir Walter Scott

• Why?

  Why came the rose? Because the sun, in shining,
  Found in the mold some atoms rare and fine:
  And, stooping, drew and warmed them into growing,— …

  Mary Louise Ritter

• “Love not me for comely grace”

  Love not me for comely grace,
  For my pleasing eye or face,
  Nor for any outward part, …

  Anonymous

• Light

  The Night has a thousand eyes,
  The day but one;
  Yet the light of the bright world dies …

  Francis William Bourdillon

• “O mistress mine”

  From “Twelfth Night,” Act II. Sc. 3.
  O MISTRESS mine, where are you roaming?
  O, stay and hear! your true-love ’s coming …

  William Shakespeare

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