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• Surprised by Joy - Impatient as the Wind

  Surprised by joy — impatient as the Wind
  I turned to share the transport--Oh! with whom
  But Thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, …

  William Wordsworth

• Love Lies Bleeding

  You call it, Love lies bleeding--so you may,
  Though the red Flower, not prostrate, only droops,
  As we have seen it here from day to day, …

  William Wordsworth

• The Garden of Love

  I laid me down upon a bank,
  Where Love lay sleeping;
  I heard among the rushes dank …

  William Blake

• My Pretty Rose Tree

  A flower was offered to me,
  Such a flower as May never bore;
  But I said "I've a pretty rose tree," …

  William Blake

• Serenade

  So sweet the hour, so calm the time,
  I feel it more than half a crime,
  When Nature sleeps and stars are mute, …

  Edgar Allan Poe

• To Helen

  I saw thee once - once only - years ago:
  I must not say how many - but not many.
  It was a July midnight; and from out …

  Edgar Allan Poe

• To One in Paradise

  Thou wast all that to me, love,
  For which my soul did pine-
  A green isle in the sea, love, …

  Edgar Allan Poe

• When the Lamp is Shattered

  When the lamp is shattered
  The light in the dust lies dead -
  When the cloud is scattered, …

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Secret Love

  I hid my love when young till I
  Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly;
  I hid my love to my despite …

  John Clare

• To Mary: I Sleep with Thee

  I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,
  And yet thou art not there;
  I fill my arms with thoughts of thee, …

  John Clare

• The Banks of Bonnie Doon

  Ye flowery banks o' bonnie Doon,
  How can ye blume sae fair!
  How can ye chant, ye little birds, …

  Robert Burns

• The Dream

  Love, if I weep it will not matter,
  And if you laugh I shall not care;
  Foolish am I to think about it, …

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Without Her

  What of her glass without her? The blank grey
  There where the pool is blind of the moon’s face.
  Her dress without her? The tossed empty space …

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Silent Noon

  Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,--
  ...The finger-points look through like rosy blooms:
  ...Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms …

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Nuptial Sleep

  At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:
  And as the last slow sudden drops are shed
  From sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled, …

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• An Evening Song

  Look off, dear Love, across the sallow sands,
  And mark yon meeting of the sun and sea,
  How long they kiss in sight of all the lands. …

  Sidney Lanier

• A Song of Love

  Hey, rose, just born
  Twin to a thorn;
  Was't so with you, O Love and Scorn? …

  Sidney Lanier

• Love is a Sickness

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

  Samuel Daniel

• Elizabeth of Bohemia

  You meaner beauties of the night,
  That poorly satisfy our eyes
  More by your number than your light, …

  Sir Henry Wotton

• The Bargain

  My true love hath my heart, and I have his,
  By just exchange one for another given:
  I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, …

  Sir Philip Sidney

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