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• Severed Selves

  Two separate divided silences,
  Which, brought together, would find loving voice;
  Two glances which together would rejoice …

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• A Dream Girl

  You will come one day in a waver of love,
  Tender as dew, impetuous as rain,
  The tan of the sun will be on your skin, …

  Carl Sandburg

• Eulalie

  I dwelt alone
  In a world of moan,
  And my soul was a stagnant tide, …

  Edgar Allan Poe

• The Ragged Wood

  O, hurry, where by water, among the trees,
  The delicate-stepping stag and his lady sigh,
  When they have looked upon their images …

  William Butler Yeats

• Music, When Soft Voices Die

  Music, when soft voices die,
  Vibrates in the memory—
  Odours, when sweet violets sicken, …

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

• The Taxi

  When I go away from you
  The world beats dead
  Like a slackened drum. …

  Amy Lowell

• Daffodils

  I wander’d lonely as a cloud
  That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
  When all at once I saw a crowd, …

  William Wordsworth

• Ebb

  I know what my heart is like
  Since your love died:
  It is like a hollow ledge …

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Love

  Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate,
  Where that comes in that shall not go again;
  Love sells the proud heart’s citadel to Fate. …

  Rupert Brooke

• Phillis II

  Love guards the roses of thy lips
  And flies about them like a bee;
  If I approach he forward skips, …

  Thomas Lodge

• Kindliness

  When love has changed to kindliness—
  Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press
  So tight that Time’s an old gold’s dream …

  Rupert Brooke

• The Passionate Pilgrim

  Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle;
  Mild as a dove, but neither true nor trusty;
  Brighter than glass, and yet, as glass is, brittle; …

  William Shakespeare

• To the Willow-tree

  Thou art to all lost love the best,
  The only true plant found,
  Wherewith young men and maids distrest, …

  Robert Herrick

• Elegy

  Since I lost you, my darling, the sky has come near,
  And I am of it, the small sharp stars are quite near,
  The white moon going among them like a white bird among snow-berries, …

  D.H. Lawrence

• Friendship

  When we were idlers with the loitering rills,
  The need of human love we little noted:
  Our love was nature; and the peace that floated …

  Hartley Coleridge

• Harlan Sewall

  You never understood, O unknown one,
  Why it was I repaid
  Your devoted friendship and delicate ministrations …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Life Is Love

  The fair varieties of earth,
  The heavens serene and blue above,
  The rippling smile of mighty seas— …

  William Johnson Fox

• Lovers

  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 …

  Siegfried Sassoon

• In the Garden VI: A Peach

  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 …

  Edward Dowden

• A New Hymn for Solitude

  I found Thee in my heart, O Lord,
  As in some secret shrine;
  I knelt, I waited for Thy word, …

  Edward Dowden

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