Love poetry Anthology - QUOTES Flashcards
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Whoso List to Hunt
“Whoso list to hount i know where is an hynde”
“Sithens in a nett I seke to hold the wynde’ ‘wylde for to hold Who list her hount, I put him owte of doubt’”
‘graven in Diamondes in letters plain her faier neck rounde abowte Noli me tangere for Cesars I ame’
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Sonnet 116
“love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.”
it is an ever-fixèd mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken
Love’s not time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come.
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
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The Flea
It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is;
Yet thou triumph’st, and say’st that thou
Find’st not thy self, nor me the weaker now;
’Tis true; then learn how false, fears be
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To his Coy Mistress
‘I would/ love you ten years before the flood: And you should if you please refuse/ Till the conversion of the Jews
But at my back I alwaies hear/ Times winged Charriot hurrying near
Thus, though we cannot make our sun/ stand still, yet we still make him run.
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The Scrutiny
Lady it is already morn, and ‘twas last night I swore to thee that fond impossibility
Have I not loved thee much an long, A tedious twelve hour space?
But I must search the black and fair, Like skillful mineralists that sound For treasure in un-plowed-up ground
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A Song Absent from thee
‘Absent from thee I languish still’
‘The Torments it deserves to try, that tears my fixt Heart from my Love.’
To thy safe Bosom I retire where Love and Peace and truth does flow’
‘Lest once more wandring from that Heav’n I fall on some base heart unblest’ ‘Faithless to thee False unforgiv’n’
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The garden of Love
“A Chapel was built on the midst, where i used to play on the green”
“the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door;
So I turn’d to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore.”
“Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.”
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Ae Fond Kiss
“Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, and then forever!”
Naething could resist my Nancy;
But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love forever.
Had we never lov’d sae kindly,
Had we never lov’d sae blindly,
Never met—or never parted—
We had ne’er been broken-hearted.
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She walks in beauty
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!
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Remember
Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
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The Ruined Maid
And whence such fair garments, such prosperi-ty?” —”O didn’t you know I’d been ruined?” said she.
You left us in tatters, without shoes or socks,…
And now you’ve gay bracelets and bright feathers three!” —
“Yes: that’s how we dress when we’re ruined,” said she.
Your hands were like paws then, your face blue and bleak But now I’m bewitched by your delicate cheek
I wish I had feathers, a fine sweeping gown,
And a delicate face, and could strut about Town!…You ain’t ruined,” said she
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At An Inn
‘Veiled smiles bespoke their thought’
‘That swift sympathy with living love which quicks the world - maybe’
‘And we were left alone as Love’s own pair; Yet never the love-light shone between us there’
‘O severing seas and land, O laws of men, ere death, once let us stand as we stood then!’
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci
“And on thy cheeks a fading rose fast withered too.”
“I met a lady in the meads, full beautiful - a faery’s child”
“La Belle Dame sans Merci thee hath in thrall!”
“And there I shut her wild eyes with kisses four.”
“I made a garland for her head, and bracelets too, and fragrant zone.”
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Cynarae
betwixt her lips and mine,There fell thy shadow, Cynara!
I am desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, hungry for the lips of my desire:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine;