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Poets about Love.
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The muse in silence sings aloud: / And there my love will live (Clare);
Here the anthem doth commence: / Love and constancy is dead (Shakespeare);
If I the death of Love had deeply planned, / I never could have made it half so sure (Meredith);
Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old; /
Some strangle with the hands of lust,
Some with the hands of Gold (Wilde);
Here is a filthy spot to dig Love’s grave (Meredith);
Come out from the grave, my love and care (Blake).
And love is less kind than the grey twilight (Yeats);
If all the world and love were young (Raleigh);
Fair is my love, when her fair golden hairs
With the loose wind ye waving chance to mark (Spenser) .
A pity beyond all telling / Is hid in the heart of love – Yeats;
Pillowed upon my fair love’s ripening breast – (Keats),
And Grief, and Fear, Love’s greatest Enemies – (Cowley);
Within Love’s foes, his greatest goes abide – (Cowley),
O, love’s best habit is in seeming trust – (Shakespeare),
Break the high bond we made, and sell Love’s trust – (Brook),
Thou lovest – but ne’er knew love’s sad satiety – (Shelley).
Love fled / And paced upon the mountains overhead / And hid his face amid a crowd of stars (Yeats);
My love, why have you left me alone? (Joyce);
In a field by the river my love and I did stand (Yeats);
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet (Yeats);
Therefore the love which us doth blind (Marvell);
Love seeketh not itself to please (Blake);
When my love swears that she is made of truth / I do believe her (Shakespeare); But love has pitched his mansion in / The place of excrement (Yeats);
And I just touched the tree where his secret love cut, / Two letters that stand for love’s name (Clare).
For Fate with jealous Eyes does see / Two perfect Loves (Marvell);
I could not love thee, Dear, so much, / Love I not Honour more (Lovelace).
…did I know till then / What love I bore to thee (Wordsworth);
Love to give or to withhold / Is not at my command (Yeats);
Since one might well forget to weep, who bore / Thy confort long, and lose thy love thereby (Browning);
My heart will beat – and burn – and chill, / First love will not be hid (Clare).
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink (Keats);
Though hope fall from you and love decay (Yeats);
And his dark secret love / Does thy life destroy (Blake).
And in my heart how deep unending / Ache of love! (Joyce);
And hauntings from the infirmity of love, / Are aught of what makes up a mother’s heart (Wordsworth);
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes / Or new love pine at them beyond to-morrow (Keats);
But wilt thou cure thine heart / Of love and all its smart (Beddoes).
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew (Daniel);
Now yellow waxen lights / Shall waite on honey love (Campion);
But Death will lead her to a shade / Where Love is cold and Beauty blind (Davenant);
…rather say / With warmer Love – oh! With far deeper zeal / Of holier Love (Wordsworth).
Me vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow (Marvell); ‘Tis no sin, Love’s fruit to steal (Jonson);
Fond love declines – this heavenly love grows higher (Fletcher);
When Love with unconfined wings / Hovers within my gates (Lovelace);
But could youth last, and love still breed (Raleigh).
Passion is here a soilure of the wits, / We’re told, and Love a cross for them to bear – (Robinson);
Freedom to all from love and fear and lust – (Dowson),
Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, / Or Love in a golden bowl? – (Blake);
A spring of love gushed from my heart – (Coleridge)
Come, my Celia, let us prove, / While we can, the sports of love (Jonson);
Have ye leisure, comfort, calm, / Shelter, food, love’s gentle balm? (Shelley)
Love is a barren sea, bitter and deep (Swinburne);
I went to the Garden of Love. / And saw what I never had seen (Blake);
What love was ever as deep as a grave? (Swinburne);
Then every man of every clime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form divine
Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace (Blake).
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