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Love Poems Valentine s Day 2014 The Betsy South Beach
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LOVE POEMS To read and share by Paul Lawrence Dunbar E E Cummings Emily Dickinson Hyam Plutzik Pablo Neruda Valentines Week 2014 The Betsy South Beach
Paul Laurence Dunbar PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Invitation to Love Come when the nights are bright with stars Or come when the moon is mellow Come when the sun his golden bars Drops on the hay field yellow Come in the twilight soft and gray Come in the night or come in the day Come O love whene er you may And you are welcome welcome You are sweet O Love dear Love You are soft as the nesting dove Come to my heart and bring it to rest As the bird flies home to its welcome nest Come when my heart is full of grief Or when my heart is merry Come with the falling of the leaf Or with the redd ning cherry Come when the year s first blossom blows Come when the summer gleams and glows Come with the winter s drifting snows And you are welcome welcome
ee cummings E E CUMMINGS I Carry Your Heart I carry your heart 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 I fear 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 and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide and this is the wonder that s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart I carry it in my heart
Emily Dickinson EMILY DICKINSON Love is anterior to life Love is anterior to life Posterior to death Initial of creation and The exponent of breath My river runs to thee My river runs to thee Blue sea wilt welcome me My river waits reply Oh sea look graciously I ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks Say sea Take me
Hyam Plutzik HYAM PLUTZIK Brooch Brooch of chanticleer singing of gold and ruby Go to a gypsy in a distant city Over the sunken galleons of the ocean That sunders us Tell her that I have kissed you Therefore if she do so our lips shall meet As is the tenderness we knew repeating The oath we took together she and I These two years past Brooch of ruby and gold Go to the gypsy quickly You shall know her By the gay laugh and by the graceful way The soft arms and by the eyes of longing The smooth cheek with the slow tear falling And the heart s blood crying out for me As mine for her over the heavy miles
Tell her the days are an empty cup now Till we walk again together and we turn To circle each other in the orbit of our arms Like suns bound in the great paths of heaven But on this fragile world they gave to us Brooch of chanticleer singing you have known Two generations of men lapse and be quiet Surely in this time you have found knowledge Have seen the evils that hover above our ways Go be my messenger protect her from them And pinned at her warm throat be talisman Against the outrage of fate or sorrowing And say this too when she first look upon you He loves you there on the green island England He takes your face in his hands and draws you to him Forever thus it shall be at the battle s ending
Pablo Neruda PABLO NERUDA I love you without knowing how or when or from where I love you simply without problems or pride I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this in which there is no I or you so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close from 100 Love Sonnets I love you as certain dark things are to be loved in secret between the shadow and the soul from 100 Love Sonnets
I want To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees from 20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair Then love knew it was called love And when I lifted my eyes to your name suddenly your heart showed me my way from Veinte poemas de amor y una canci n desesperada Cien sonetos de amor
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