poems

1.A WOMAN'S LAST WORD BY ROBERT BROWNING
LET'S CONTEND NO MORE LOVE STRIVE NOR WEEP ALL BE AS BEFORE LOVE ONLY SLEEP WHAT SO WILD AS WORDS ARE I AND THOU IN DEBATE AS BIRDS ARE HAWK ON BOUGH SEE THE CREATURE STALKING WHILE WE SPEAK HUSH AN HIDE THE TALKING CHEEK ON CHEEK WHAT SO FALSE AS TRUTH IS FALSE TO THEE WHERE THE SERPNT'S TOOTH IS SHUN THE TREE WHERE THE APPLE REDDENS NEVER PRY LEST WE LOSE OUR EDENS EVE AND I BE A GOD AND HOLD ME WITH A CHARM BE A MAN AND FOLD ME WITH THINE ARM TEACH ME ONLY TEACH LOVE AS I OUGHT I WILL SPEAK THY SPEECH LOVE THINK THY THOUGHT MEET IF THOU REQUIRE IT BOTH DEMANDS LAYING FLESH AND SPIRIT IN THY HANDS THAT SHALL BE TOMORROW NOT TONIGHT I MUST BURY SORROW OUT OF SIGHT MUST A LITTLE WEEP MY LOVE FOOLISH ME AND SO FALL ASLEEP LOVE LOVED BY THEE

2 SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY BY LORD BYRON
SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY LIKE THE NIGHT OF CLOUDLESS CLIMES AND STARRY SKIES AND ALL THAT'S BEST OF DARK AND BRIGHT MEETS IN HER ASPECT AND HER EYES THUS MELLOW'D TO THAT TENDER LIGHT WHICH HEAVEN TO GAUDY DAY DENIES ONE SHADE THE MORE ONE RAY THE LESS HAD HALF MPAIR'D THE NAMELESS GRACE WHICH WAVES IN EVEN RAVEN TRESS OR SOFTLY LIGHTENS O'ER HER FACE WHERE THOUGHTS SERENELY SWEET EXPRESS HOW PURE HOW DEAR THEIR DWELLING PLACE AND ON THAT CHEEK AND O'ER THAT BROW SO SOFT SO CALM YET ELOQUENT THE SMILES THAT WINS THE TINTS THAT GLOW BUT TELL OF DAYS IN GOODNESS SPENT A MIND AT PEACE WITH ALL BELOW A HEART WHOSE LOVE IS INNOCENT