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• Sonnet 30

  My love is like to ice, and I to fire:
  How comes it then that this her cold is so great
  Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, …

  Edmund Spenser

• One day I wrote her name upon the strand

  One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
  But came the waves and washed it away:
  Again I wrote it with a second hand, …

  Edmund Spenser

• Go, lovely Rose

  Go, lovely rose!
  Tell her that wastes her time and me
  That now she knows, …

  Edmund Waller

• I Love Thee

  I love thee, as I love the calm
  Of sweet, star-lighted hours!
  I love thee, as I love the balm …

  Eliza Acton

• I Leave Thee for Awhile

  I leave thee for awhile, my love, I leave thee with a sigh;
  The fountain spring within my soul is playing in mine eye;
  I do not blush to own the tear, let, let it touch my cheek, …

  Eliza Cook

• At Last

  At last, when all the summer shine
  That warmed life's early hours is past,
  Your loving fingers seek for mine …

  Elizabeth Akers Allen

• Sonnets from the Portuguese, 14

  If thou must love me, let it be for nought
  Except for love's sake only. Do not say
  'I love her for her smile---her look---her way …

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

  How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
  I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
  My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight …

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Upon the Death of Her Husband

  Yet, gentle shade! whether thou now does rove,
  Thro' some blest vale, or ever verdant grove,
  One moment listen to my grief and take …

  Elizabeth Singer Rowe

• Love and Friendship

  Love is like the wild rose-briar,
  Friendship like the holly-tree -
  The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms' …

  Emily Bronte

• I gave myself to him

  I gave myself to him,
  And took himself for pay.
  The solemn contract of a life …

  Emily Dickinson

• A Valentine to My Wife

  Accept, dear girl, this little token,
  And if between the lines you seek,
  You'll find the love I've often spoken- …

  Eugene Field

• The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

  The night has a thousand eyes,
  And the day but one;
  Yet the light of the bright world dies …

  Francis William Bourdillon

• The Looks of a Lover Enamoured

  Thou, with thy looks, on whom I look full oft,
  And find therein great cause of deep delight,
  Thy face is fair, thy skin is smooth and soft, …

  George Gasgione

• She Walks in Beauty

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  She walks in beauty, like the night
  Of cloudless climes and starry skies; …

  Lord Byron

• When We Two Parted

  When we two parted
  In silence and tears,
  Half broken-hearted, …

  Lord Byron

• Love (III)

  Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
  Guilty of dust and sin.
  But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack …

  George Herbert

• She Is Not Fair To Outward View

  She is not fair to outward view
  As many maidens be,
  Her loveliness I never knew …

  Hartley Coleridge

• To an Absent Lover

  That so much change should come when thou dost go,
  Is mystery that I cannot ravel quite.
  The very house seems dark as when the light …

  Helen Hunt Jackson

• Damelus' Song to Diaphenia

  Diaphenia, like the daffadowndilly,
  White as the sun, fair as the lily,
  Heigh ho, how I do love thee! …

  Henry Constable

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