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No! some instinct she could not account for seemed to whisper that it was improper presumptuous, to call him "Dear Philip." Had Burns's songs the songs that unthinkingly he had put into her hand, and told her to read songs that comprise the most beautiful love-poems in the world had they helped to teach her some of the secrets of her own heart? And had timidity come with knowledge?
They prayed metaphysics, acrostics, angelology, Cabalah, history, exegetics, Talmudical controversies, menus, recipes, priestly prescriptions, the canonical books, psalms, love-poems, an undigested hotch-potch of exalted and questionable sentiments, of communal and egoistic aspirations of the highest order.
You drink them in with the breeze, and they awaken in your heart a longing for happiness which increases with the hun ger induced by walking. The fleeting, charming ideas fly and sing like birds. I was following that long road which goes from Saint Raphael to Italy, or, rather, that long, splendid panoramic highway which seems made for the representation of all the love-poems of earth.
It is impossible to say for certain to whom these mystical love-poems were addressed. He uses the same imagery, the same conceits, the same abstract ideas for both sexes, and adapts the leading motive which he had invented for a person of one sex to a person of the other when it suits his purpose.
p. 251 Song. Oh! Love. Mr. Bullen, who includes this 'impassioned song' in his Musa Proterva: Love-Poems of the Restoration , has the following note: 'Did Mrs. Bowman, set by Dr. John Blow." At the end of the song Playford adds, "These words by Mr. Ousley." ... Mrs. Behn usually acknowledged her obligations; but she may have been neglectful on the present occasion.
But it is no news to me, for the Alexandrian himself told me the same thing as Florus." "You follow Ovid and she Sappho," said Florus; "you write in Latin and she in Greek. Do you still always carry Ovid's love-poems about with you?" "Always," replied Verus, "as Alexander did his Homer."
Browning returned to his original manner, though carrying into it something of the renewed vigour which had marked the intervening change. The lyrics which alternate with its parables include some of the most tender, most impassioned, and most musical of his love-poems. The moral and religious opinions conveyed in this later volume may be accepted without reserve as Mr.
But I don't believe really I'm sorry, but I don't believe you do know what love means at all." "Oh, it isn't as bad as that," said Carlton. "I think I know what it is, and what it means to other people, but I can't feel it myself. The best idea I ever got of it the thing that made it clear to me was a line in a play. It seemed to express it better than any of the love-poems I ever read.
Though during the past year they had seen each other constantly, and their literary occupations had produced many sympathies between them though he had intimated that many of his most eloquent love-poems were inspired by her though he had asserted in prose, very pretty prose too, that she was all that youthful poets dream of, yet she had hitherto treated such declarations with a playful laugh, accepting them as elegant compliments inspired by Parisian gallantry; and he felt an angry and sore foreboding that if he were to insist too seriously on the earnestness of their import and ask her plainly to be his wife, her refusal would be certain, and his visits to her house might be interdicted.
De Vigny was also the only one among our poets that had a lofty ideal of woman and of love. And in order to convince one's self of this it is sufficient to reread successively the four great love-poems of that period: 'Le Lac, La Tristesse d'Olympio, Le Souvenir, and La Colere de Samson'.
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