Sonnets from the Portuguese, XIV

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say ...

Music, When Soft Voices Die

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory -- ...

I Taste a Liquor

By: Emily Dickinson

I taste a liquor never brewed
From Tankards scooped in Pearl. ...

Sweet Disorder

By: Robert Herrick

A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness: ...

My True Love Has My Heart

By: Philip Sidney

My true-love hath my heart and I have his,
By just exchange one for the other given; ...

Song

By: John Donne

Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root, ...

Upon Julia's Clothes

By: Robert Herrick

Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows ...

A Book of Verse

By: Omar Khayyam

A book of verse, underneath the bough,
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread - and thou ...

To One in Paradise

By: Edgar Allen Poe

Thou wast that all to me, love,
For which my soul did pine-- ...

I Have No Life But This

By: Emily Dickinson

I have no life but this,
To lead it here; ...