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a book with a view: Shall I Compare Thee...
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A book with a view. A site for readers, thinkers, and those who like to muse about what they're reading. A place for all who love reflecting on the written word. Shall I Compare Thee. Today we have one of the best love poems ever written in the English language, Sonnet 18. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,. And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,. Empty, but clean,.
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a book with a view: Jenny Kissed Me -- More Than Once
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A book with a view. A site for readers, thinkers, and those who like to muse about what they're reading. A place for all who love reflecting on the written word. Jenny kissed me when we met,. Jumping from the chair she sat in. Time, you thief! Who love to get. Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad;. Say that health and wealth have missed me;. Say I'm growing old, but add-. Jenny Kissed Me,. There's a fun story - actually there are two. Oddly enough, someone wrote a song. There ar...
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a book with a view: Carpe Diem, Lovers
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A book with a view. A site for readers, thinkers, and those who like to muse about what they're reading. A place for all who love reflecting on the written word. Carpe Diem, Lovers. To His Coy Mistress. Had we but world enough, and time,. This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way. To walk, and pass our long love's day;. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side. Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide. Of Humber would complain. I would. Love you ten years before the Flood;. Now let us sp...
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a book with a view: Oh, To Be Ordinary!
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A book with a view. A site for readers, thinkers, and those who like to muse about what they're reading. A place for all who love reflecting on the written word. Oh, To Be Ordinary! A guest post by Betsy Jordan, who just happens to be my best and favorite daughter, who is not, and has never been, ordinary. Enjoy. Long and long ago, when Oberon. Was king of the fairies, there reigned over the fair country of. A monarch who had six beautiful. So begins one of my favorite childhood books -. Of a great perso...
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a book with a view: Top Love Poem of All Time
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A book with a view. A site for readers, thinkers, and those who like to muse about what they're reading. A place for all who love reflecting on the written word. Top Love Poem of All Time. Yes, it's a big claim to make,. That one can select the top poem on a subject that has been written about more than any other. But I believe I can make a good case that I have done it here. Speaking of love, the love between a mother is daughter is often complicated. For all that you gave me, Mom, thank you. Check my b...
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a book with a view: Love that Spans the Ages
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A book with a view. A site for readers, thinkers, and those who like to muse about what they're reading. A place for all who love reflecting on the written word. Love that Spans the Ages. One of the most poignant love poems ever written, William Yeats When You are Old and Grey. When you are old and grey and full of sleep,. And nodding by the fire,. Take down this book,. And slowly read, and dream of the soft look. Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;. How many loved your moments of glad grace,.
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a book with a view: The Dueling Poets: Marlowe vs Shakespeare
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A book with a view. A site for readers, thinkers, and those who like to muse about what they're reading. A place for all who love reflecting on the written word. The Dueling Poets: Marlowe vs Shakespeare. Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare were both. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. Come live with me and be my love,. And we will all the pleasures prove. That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,. Woods or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the rocks,. By shallow rivers to whose falls.
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a book with a view: Love Poem #1
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A book with a view. A site for readers, thinkers, and those who like to muse about what they're reading. A place for all who love reflecting on the written word. If thou must love me, let it be for nought. Except for love's sake only. I love her for her smile her look her way. Of speaking gently, for a trick of thought. That falls in well with mine, and certes brought. A sense of ease on such a day'. For these things in themselves, Beloved, may. Be changed, or change for thee, and love, so wrought,.
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a book with a view: love in lower case
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A book with a view. A site for readers, thinkers, and those who like to muse about what they're reading. A place for all who love reflecting on the written word. Love in lower case. I carry your heart with me(i carry it in. My heart)i am never without it(anywhere. I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done. By only me is your doing,my darling). No fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want. No world(for beautiful you are my world,my true). And it's you are whatever a moon has always meant. Empty, but clean,.
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a book with a view: Dear Mrs. Pollifax
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A book with a view. A site for readers, thinkers, and those who like to muse about what they're reading. A place for all who love reflecting on the written word. Dear Mrs. Pollifax. Or my Adventures with One Feisty Old Lady. I’m sorry, Mrs. P., I know you prefer not. To be referred to as old, but what else could I say? You deserve to ‘retire’ but oh how I shall hate not working with you again. Geese, one pistol, fireworks, knots, motorcycle, bow and arrow. Can you believe we actually got everyone out...
