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© Madison Julius Cawein
You say I do not love you!--Tell me why,
When I have gazed a little on your face,
And then gone forth into the world of men,
A beauty, neither of the Earth or Sky,
A glamour, that transforms each common place,
Attends my spirit then?
Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now
© Edna St. Vincent Millay
Women have loved before as I love now;
At least, in lively chronicles of the past
Winter Streams
© Bliss William Carman
NOW the little rivers go
Muffled safely under snow,
And the winding meadow streams
Murmur in their wintry dreams,
What We All Think
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
THAT age was older once than now,
In spite of locks untimely shed,
Or silvered on the youthful brow;
That babes make love and children wed.
Wind-Jammer's Song (1845 Clipper Days)
© Harry Kemp
All hands on deck, below there!
The storm is coming soon,
The clouds tramp on in panic
Across the swirling moon.
While Yet These Tears
© Louise Labe
While yet these tears have power to flow
For hours for ever past away;
Written At Sea
© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
What is my quarrel with thee, beautiful sea,
That thus I cannot love thy waves or thee,
Or hear thy voice but it tormenteth me?
Wreath For A Bridal
© Sylvia Plath
What though green leaves only witness
Such pact as is made once only; what matter
That owl voice sole yes, while cows utter
Low moos of approve; let sun surpliced in brightness
Stand stock still to laud these mated ones
Whose stark act all coming double luck joins.
When Some Day
© Hovhannes Toumanian
Sweet comrade, when you come some day
To gaze upon my tomb,
And scattered all around it see
Bright flowers in freshest bloom,
Woman On The Field Of Battle
© Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Where hath not a woman stood,
Strong in affection's might? a reed, upborne
By an o'er mastering current!
We Go No More To The Forest
© Mary Colborne-Veel
WE go no more to the forest,
The rimus are all cut down.
Written in a Flower Book, of my own Colouring, designed for Lady Plymouth
© William Shenstone
Debitae nymphis opifex coronae.-Hor.
Imitation.
Constructor of the tributary wreath
For rural maids.
Winter Solstice
© Anonymous
When you startle awake in the dark morning
heart pounding breathing fast
sitting bolt upright staring into
dark whirlpool black hole
feeling its suction
Why Dost Thou Shade Thy Lovely Face?
© Francis Quarles
Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? Oh, why
Does that eclipsing hand so long deny
When I Was Still A Youthful Wight
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That my features were small-yes, very;
Yet then full many a beauteous child
With true affection upon me smil'd.
Why Moan, Why Wail You, Wind Of Night
© Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev
Why moan, why wail you, wind of night,
With such despair, such frenzied madness?