Title | Poet | Year Written | Collection | Body |
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“How doth the little busy bee” | Isaac Watts | 1694 | English |
How doth the little busy bee How skilfully she builds her cell; |
“How sleep the brave” | William Collins | 1741 | English |
How sleep the brave who sink to rest By fairy hands their knell... |
“How ’s my boy?” | Sydney Dobell | 1844 | English |
“ho, sailor of the sea! “My boy John— “You come back from... |
“I dreamt I saw great Venus” | Bion of Smyrna | English |
From the Greek by Leigh Hunt |
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“I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden” | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1812 | English |
I Fear thy kisses, gentle maiden; I fear thy mien, thy tones, thy motion; |
“I gave my life for thee” | Frances Ridley Havergal | English |
I Gave my life for thee, I spent long years for thee |
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“I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled” | Thomas Moore | 1799 | English |
I Knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled It was noon, and on flowers that languished around... |
“I love my Jean” | Robert Burns | 1779 | English |
Of a’ the airts 1 the wind can blaw, |
“I prithee send me back my heart” | Sir John Suckling | 1629 | English |
I Prithee send me back my heart, Yet, now I think on ’t, let it lie; |
“I remember, I remember” | Thomas Hood | 1819 | English |
I Remember, I remember |
“I saw Thee” | Ray Palmer | English |
“When thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.”—JOHN i. 48. I SAW thee when, as twilight fell, I saw thee when thou stood’st alone, |
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“I saw two clouds at morning” | John Gardiner Calkins Brainard | English |
I Saw two clouds at morning, I saw two summer currents |
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“I would I were an excellent divine” | Nicholas Breton | 1562 | English |
I Would I were an excellent divine, |
“I would not live alway” | William Augustus Muhlenberg | English |
I Would not live alway—live alway below! |
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“If doughty deeds my lady please” | Robert Graham of Gartmore | English |
If doughty deeds my lady please, |
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“If I should die to-night” | Belle E. Smith | English |
IF I should die to-night, |
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“If it be true that any beauteous thing” | Michaelangelo | English |
From the Italian by John Edward Taylor |
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“If thou wert by my side, my love” | Reginald Heber | English |
Lines Written to His Wife, While on a Visit to Upper India IF thou wert by my side, my love! If thou, my love, wert by my side, |
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“If we had but a day” | Mary Lowe Dickinson | 1859 | English |
We should fill the hours with the sweetest things, |
“If we knew” | May Riley Smith | 1862 | English |
Or, Blessings of To-day |