Love’s Nocturn

Dante Gabriel Rossetti No Comments »

Master of the murmuring courts
Where the shapes of sleep convene!
Lo! my spirit here exhorts
All the powers of thy demesne
For their aid to woo my queen.
What reports
Yield thy jealous courts unseen?

Vaporous...

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Love’s Gleaning Tide

William Morris No Comments »

Draw not away thy hands, my love,
With wind alone the branches move,
And though the leaves be scant above
The Autumn shall not shame us.

Say; Let the world wax cold and drear,
What …

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The Maid of Neidpath

Sir Walter Scott No Comments »

O lovers’ eyes are sharp to see,
And lovers’ ears in hearing;
And love, in life’s extremity,
Can lend an hour of cheering.
Disease had been in Mary’s bower,
And slow decay from mourning,
Thou...

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A Woman’s Last Word

Robert Browning No Comments »

I.

Let’s contend no more, Love,
Strive nor weep:
All be as before, Love,
Only sleep!

II.

What so wild as words are?
I and thou
In debate, as birds are,
Hawk on bough!

III.

Se...

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Love Among The Ruins

Robert Browning 1 Comment »

I
Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles,
Miles and miles
On the solitary pastures where our sheep
Half-asleep
Tinkle homeward thro’ the twilight, stray or stop
As they crop
Was the site once of ...

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Silentium Amoris (The Silence of Love)

Oscar Wilde No Comments »

As oftentimes the too resplendent sun
Hurries the pallid and reluctant moon
Back to her sombre cave, ere she hath won
A single ballad from the nightingale,
So doth thy Beauty make my lips …

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