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• Love's Trinity

  Soul, heart, and body, we thus singly name,
  Are not in love divisible and distinct,
  But each with each inseparably link'd. …

  Alfred Austin

• Marriage Morning

  Light, so low upon earth,
  You send a flash to the sun.
  Here is the golden close of love, …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Madonna of the Evening Flowers

  All day long I have been working,
  Now I am tired.
  I call:“Where are you?” …

  Amy Lowell

• The Definition of Love

  My love is of a birth as rare
  As 'tis for object strange and high;
  It was begotten by Despair …

  Andrew Marvell

• To My Dear and Loving Husband

  If ever two were one, then surely we.
  If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee;
  If ever wife was happy in a man, …

  Anne Bradstreet

• Love Me Little, Love Me Long

  Love me little, love me long,
  Is the burden of my song.
  Love that is too hot and strong …

  Anonymous (1500-1599)

• To His Love

  Come away, come, sweet love,
  The golden morning breaks,
  All the earth, all the air …

  Anonymous (1500-1599)

• Love Armed

  Love in Fantastique Triumph satt,
  Whilst bleeding Hearts around him flow'd,
  For whom Fresh pains he did create, …

  Aphra Behn

• On Her Loving Two Equally

  I
  How strong does my passion flow,
  Divided equally twixt two? …

  Aphra Behn

• To Celia

  Drink to me, only, with thine eyes,
  And I will pledge with mine;
  Or leave a kiss but in the cup, …

  Ben Jonson

• Her Triumph

  See the chariot at hand here of Love,
  Wherein my lady rideth!
  Each that draws is a swan or a dove, …

  Ben Jonson

• Remember

  Remember me when I am gone away,
  Gone far away into the silent land;
  When you can no more hold me by the hand, …

  Christina Georgina Rossetti

• Echo

  Come to me in the silence of the night;
  Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
  Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright …

  Christina Georgina Rossetti

• The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

  Come live with me and be my love,
  And we will all the pleasures prove,
  That valleys, groves, hills and fields, …

  Christopher Marlowe

• Love Unexpressed

  The sweetest notes among the human heart-strings are dull with rust;
  The sweetest chords, adjusted by the angels, are clogged with dust;
  We pipe and pipe again our dreary music upon the self-same strains, …

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

• Sonnet 23: Love's Baubles

  I stood where Love in brimming armfuls bore
  Slight wanton flowers and foolish toys of fruit:
  And round him ladies thronged in warm pursuit, …

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• The Blessed Damozel

  The blessed damozel leaned out
  From the gold bar of Heaven;
  Her eyes were deeper than the depth …

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• A Dream within a Dream

  Take this kiss upon the brow!
  And, in parting from you now,
  Thus much let me avow: …

  Edgar Allan Poe

• Annabel Lee

  It was many and many a year ago,
  In a kingdom by the sea,
  That a maiden there lived whom you may know …

  Edgar Allan Poe

• William and Emily

  There is something about Death
  Like love itself!
  If with some one with whom you have known passion, …

  Edgar Lee Masters

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