OXFORD GARLANDS

LOVE POEMS

SELECTED BY

R. M. LEONARD

Love that I know, love I am wise in,

R. BRIDGES

HUMPHREY MILFORD

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK
TORONTO MELBOURNE BOMBAY

1914

OXFORD: HORACE HART

PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822-88)
BARNES, WILLIAM (1801–86)

BEAUMONT, FRANCIS (1584–1616), AND FLETCHER, JOHN

BRETON, NICHOLAS (1545 ?–1626 ?).

BRIDGES, ROBERT (b. 1844)

BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (1806–61)
BROWNING, ROBERT (1812–89)

BURNS, ROBERT (1759-96)

PAGE

111, 113

41

103

20

18, 51

43

5, 59, 60

68, 69, 121

43, 64, 66, 67, 115

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD (1788–1824)

DRAYTON, MICHAEL (1563–1631)

DOLBEN, DIGBY MACKWORTH (1848-67)

DORSET, CHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF (1638-1706)

Landor, Walter SAVAGE (1775-1864) 105, 106, 119, 120

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83

7, 48, 49, 97

92, 107
9

22, 23

30, 52, 55, 77, 78, 118

36, 38
28, 29, 72, 76

SCOTT, SIR Walter (1771–1832)
SEDLEY, SIR Charles (1639 ?-1701)

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616) 6, 7, 25, 26, 45, 74, 90

104

105

LOVE

LOVE THAT I KNOW

LOVE that I know, love I am wise in, love,
My strength, my pride, my grace, my skill untaught,
My faith here upon earth, my hope above,
My contemplation and perpetual thought :
The pleasure of my fancy, my heart's fire,
My joy, my peace, my praise, my happy theme,
The aim of all my doing, my desire

Of being, my life by day, by night my dream :

Love, my sweet melancholy, my distress, My pain, my doubt, my trouble, my despair, My only folly and unhappiness,

And in my careless moments still my care:

O love, sweet love, earthly love, love divine, Say'st thou to-day, O love, that thou art mine?

R. BRIDGES.

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