Somebody's Song (by: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)) This is what I vow; He shall have my heart to keep, Sweetly will we stir and sleep, All the years, as now. Swift the measured sands may run; Love like this is never done; He and I are welded one: This is what I vow. continue reading
Song From Abdelazar (by: Arphra Behn (1640-1689)) Love in fantastic triumph sat, Whilst bleeding hearts around him flow'd, For whom fresh pains he did create, And strange tyrannic power he shew'd; continue reading
Songs Of Innocence: A Cradle Song (by: William Blake (1757 - 1827)) Sweet dreams form a shade O'er my lovely infants head. Sweet dreams of pleasant streams, By happy silent moony beams continue reading
Songs Of Innocence: The Little Black Boy (by: William Blake (1757 - 1827)) My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but oh! my soul is white. White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light. continue reading
Summum Bonum (by: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)) All the wonder and wealth of the mine In the heart of one gem In the core of one pearl all the shade And the shine of the sea... continue reading
Tease (by: D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)) I will give you all my keys, You shall be my châtelaine, You shall enter as you please, As you please shall go again... continue reading
Thoughts In Separation (by: Alice Meynell (1847 - 1922)) We never meet; yet we meet day by day Upon those hills of life, dim and immense— The good we love, and sleep, our innocence. O hills of life, high hills! continue reading
