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• Life

  O Life! that mystery that no man knows,
  And all men ask: the Arab from his sands,
  The Cæsar’s self, lifting imperial hands, …

  Lizzie M. Little

• “Tell me, my heart, if this be love”

  When Delia on the plain appears,
  Awed by a thousand tender fears,
  I would approach, but dare not move;— …

  George, Lord Lyttelton

• The Kiss

  1. AMONG thy fancies tell me this:
  What is the thing we call a kiss?
  2. I shall resolve ye what it is: …

  Robert Herrick

• Love’s Philosophy

  The Fountains mingle with the river,
  And the rivers with the ocean;
  The winds of heaven mix forever, …

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Caprice

  I.
  she hung the cage at the window,
  “If he goes by,” she said, …

  William Dean Howells

• Love

  All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
  Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
  All are but ministers of Love, …

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• “Love me little, love me long”

  Originally Printed in 1569
  LOVE me little, love me long!
  Is the burden of my song: …

  Anonymous

• To Chloe

  An Apology for Going into the Country
  CHLOE, we must not always be in heaven,
  Forever toying, ogling, kissing, billing; …

  John Wolcot

• Constancy

  One eve of beauty, when the sun
  Was on the streams of Guadalquiver,
  To gold converting, one by one, …

  Anonymous

• A Renunciation

  From Byrd’s “Songs and Sonnets,” 1588
  IF women could be fair, and yet not fond,
  Or that their love were firm, not fickle still, …

  Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford

• “Why so pale and wan?”

  Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
  Pr’y thee, why so pale?
  Will, when looking well can’t move her, …

  Sir John Suckling

• Serenade

  From “The Spanish Student”
  STARS of the summer night!
  Far in yon azure deeps, …

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• First Love

  From “Don Juan,” Canto I.
  ’T IS sweet to hear,
  At midnight on the blue and moonlit deep, …

  Lord Byron

• The Welcome

  Come in the evening, or come in the morning;
  Come when you ’re looked for or come without warning;
  Kisses and welcome you ’ll find here before you, …

  Thomas Osborne Davis

• Last Night

  From the Swedish by Théophile Julius Henry Marzials
  LAST night the nightingale waked me,
  Last night when all was still; …

  Christian Winther

• Cleopatra

  Here Charmian, take my bracelets:
  They bar with a purple stain
  My arms; turn over my pillows— …

  William Wetmore Story

• Love

  There are who say the lover’s heart
  Is in the loved one’s merged;
  O, never by love’s own warm art …

  Thomas Kibble Hervey

• Stanzas

  Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa
  OH, talk not to me of a name great in story;
  The days of our youth are the days of our glory, …

  Lord Byron

• My Love

  Not as all other women are
  Is she that to my soul is dear;
  Her glorious fancies come from far, …

  James Russell Lowell

• The Bride

  From “a Ballad upon a Wedding”
  * * * * *THE MAID, and thereby hangs a tale,
  For such a maid no Whitsun-ale …

  Sir John Suckling

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