        item: #1 of 8
          id: 16995
      author: Riley, James Whitcomb
       title: Riley Love-Lyrics
        date: None
       words: 13035
      flesch: 84
     summary: Old loves, old friends--all dead and gone-- Wherein the tempest-beaten heart might ride Sometimes at peaceful anchor, and abide Where those that loved me touched me with their hands, And looked upon me with glad eyes, and slipped Smooth fingers o'er my brow, and lulled the strands Of my wild tresses, as they backward tipped My yearning face and kissed it satisfied.
    keywords: arden; day; dream; eyes; face; fer; hair; hands; heart; home; illustration; kiss; love; mary; night; rose; sing; song; tailpiece; title
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        item: #2 of 8
          id: 19897
      author: Riley, James Whitcomb
       title: Riley Love-Lyrics
        date: None
       words: 12138
      flesch: 85
     summary: Old loves, old friends--all dead and gone-- Wherein the tempest-beaten heart might ride Sometimes at peaceful anchor, and abide Where those that loved me touched me with their hands, And looked upon me with glad eyes, and slipped Smooth fingers o'er my brow, and lulled the strands Of my wild tresses, as they backward tipped My yearning face and kissed it satisfied.
    keywords: away; day; dream; eyes; face; fer; hair; hands; heart; home; illustration; kiss; light; love; mary; mother; o'er; rose; smile; touch
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        item: #3 of 8
          id: 26398
      author: None
       title: Tudor and Stuart Love Songs
        date: None
       words: 15883
      flesch: 96
     summary: True love 119 John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680). Cruel fates true love do soonest sever; O, I shall see thee never, never, never!
    keywords: beauty; day; doth; earl; eyes; face; fair; george; hath; heart; john; love; mistress; robert; shepherd; sir; thee; thomas; thou; william; woman
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        item: #4 of 8
          id: 4009
      author: Patmore, Coventry
       title: The Victories of Love, and Other Poems
        date: None
       words: 28862
      flesch: 83
     summary: Such honour, with a conduct wise In common things, as, not to steep The lofty mind of love in sleep Of over much familiarness; Not to degrade its kind caress, As those do that can feel no more, So give themselves to pleasures o'er; Not to let morning-sloth destroy The evening-flower, domestic joy; Not by uxoriousness to chill The warm devotion of her will Who can but half her love confer On him that cares for nought but her;-- These, and like obvious prudencies Observed, he's safest that relies, For the hope she will not always seem, Caught, but a laurel or a stream, On time; on her unsearchable Love-wisdom; on their work done well, Discreet with mutual aid; on might Of shared affliction and delight; On pleasures that so childish be They're 'shamed to let the children see, By which life keeps the valleys low Where love does naturally grow; On much whereof hearts have account, Though heads forget; on babes, chief fount Of union, and for which babes are No less than this for them, nay far More, for the bond of man and wife To the very verge of future life Strengthens, and yearns for brighter day, While others, with their use, decay; And, though true marriage purpose keeps Of offspring, as the centre sleeps Within the wheel, transmitting thence Fury to the circumference, Love's self the noblest offspring is, And sanction of the nuptial kiss; Lastly, on either's primal curse, Which help and sympathy reverse To blessings.
    keywords: bliss; child; day; dear; delight; eyes; fair; frederick; god; good; grace; heart; heaven; high; honoria; hope; joy; kind; life; love; man; men; mother; mrs; night; poor; sea; seem'd; things; thought; time; tis; wife; woman; years
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        item: #5 of 8
          id: 45470
      author: Verhaeren, Emile
       title: The Love Poems (From Les Heures claires, Les Heures d'après-midi, Les Heures du Soir)
        date: None
       words: 13372
      flesch: 79
     summary: Your strength is to be infinitely pure and frail; to cross with burning heart all dark roads, and to have preserved, in spite of mist or darkness, all the rays of the dawn in your childlike soul. XXVII Ardour of senses, ardour of hearts, ardour of souls, vain words created by those who diminish love; sun, you do not distinguish among your flames those of evening, of dawn, or of noon!
    keywords: day; evening; eyes; flowers; garden; hands; heart; hour; life; light; love; soul; summer; sun
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        item: #6 of 8
          id: 5125
      author: Hope, Laurence
       title: Last Poems: Translations from the Book of Indian Love
        date: None
       words: 13279
      flesch: 88
     summary: Thy nights shall be as bright as summer days, The sequence of thy sins shall seem as duty, Since I have given thee, Oh, Gift of Gifts!-- The pale perfection of unrivalled beauty. When, as the lilac evening gains the sky, I lay thee, 'twixt thine own soft hair and me, Kissing thy senses into soft delight.
    keywords: beauty; days; eyes; hair; heart; know; life; lips; love; night; sea; soul; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; youth
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        item: #7 of 8
          id: 596
      author: Teasdale, Sara
       title: Rivers to the Sea
        date: None
       words: 11949
      flesch: 85
     summary: Old love, old love, How can I be true? But there is one more strong, Love, that came laughing from the elder seas, The Cyprian, the mother of the world; She gave me love who only asked for death-- I who had seen much sorrow in men's eyes And in my own too sorrowful a fire.
    keywords: earth; eyes; heart; joy; love; night; sea; sky; song; soul; spring; stars; white; wind
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        item: #8 of 8
          id: 9920
      author: None
       title: The Garden of Bright Waters One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems
        date: None
       words: 13857
      flesch: 92
     summary: _Mira_ is a mountain goat that climbs to die Upon the top peak in the rocks of grief; It is the hour; make haste. _From the Chinese of Chang-Chi (770-850).
    keywords: arabic; century; day; death; eyes; flowers; garden; ghazal; girl; gold; green; hair; heart; look; love; moon; night; red; rose; song; white
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