You were glad to-night: and now you’ve gone away. Flushed in the dark, you put your dreams to bed; But as you fall asleep I hear you say Those tired sweet drowsy words we left unsaid.
Sleep well: for I can follow you, to bless And lull your distant beauty where you...
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If any sense in mortal dust remains When mine has been refin'd from flower to flower, Won from the sun all colours, drunk the shower And delicate winy dews, and gain'd the gains Which elves who sleep in airy bells, a-swing Through half a summer day, for love bestow...
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I found Thee in my heart, O Lord, As in some secret shrine; I knelt, I waited for Thy word, I joyed to name Thee mine.
I feared to give myself away To that or this; beside Thy altar on my face I lay, And in strong need I cried.
Those...
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How delicious is the winning Of a kiss at love's beginning, When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot there's no untying! Yet remember, 'Midst our wooing, Love has bliss, but Love has ruing; Other smiles may make you fickle, Tears for other charms may...
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Room after room, I hunt the house through We inhabit together. Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her-- Next time, herself!--not the trouble behind her Left in the curtain, the couch's perfume! As she brushed it, the cornice-wreath blossomed...
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I said--Then, dearest, since 'tis so, Since now at length my fate I know, Since nothing all my love avails, Since all, my life seem'd meant for, fails, Since this was written and needs must be-- My whole heart rises up to bless Your name in pride and...
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My love is like to ice, and I to fire: How come it then that this her cold is so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat? Or how comes it that my exceeding heat Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold, But that I burn...
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Tell me no more how fair she is, I have no minde to hear The story of that distant bliss I never shall come near: By sad experience I have found That her perfection is my wound. And tell me not how fond I am To tempt a daring Fate, From whence no triumph...
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Maxwelton's hills are bonnie Where early falls the dew And 'twas there that Annie Laurie Gived me her promise true. Gived me her promise true Which ne'er forgot shall be And for bonnie Annie Laurie I'd lay me down and die.
Her brow is like the...
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Love me not for comely grace For my pleasing eye or face, Nor for any outward part, No, nor for my constant heart. For those my fail or turn to ill, So thou and I shall sever. Keep therefore a true woman's eye, And love me still, but know not why; So hast...
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