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" If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say ' I love her for her smile — her look — her way Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant... "
Prometheus Bound, and Other Poems: Including Sonnets from the Portuguese ... - Page 149
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1852 - 225 pages
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Selected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1904 - 216 pages
...features Of what I am, doth flash itself, and show How that great work of Love enhances Nature's, XIV If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except...themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee, — and love so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping...
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The World's Best Poetry ...

John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 608 pages
...of thine, And sees within my eyes the tears of two. XIV. IF thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only. Do not say " I love her...themselves, beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee, — and love so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping...
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Odes, sonnets and epigrams

Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 302 pages
...when I sue God for myself, He hears that name of thine, And sees within my eyes the tears of two. XIV IF thou must love me, let it be for nought Except...themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee, — and love, so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping...
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A Book of English Love Poems: Chosen Out of Poets from Wyatt to Arnold

Edward Hutton - 1905 - 272 pages
...angels know) are only dear, Because thy name moves right in what they say. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING IF thou must love me, let it be for nought Except...themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee, — and love so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping...
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Words that Taste Good

Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pages
...of the most famous of all love sonnets: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Later she said: If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except...smile, — her look — her way Of speaking gently. . ." These two sonnets make an interesting contrast. But then, love is not supposed to make logical...
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Professional Burnout in Medicine and the Helping Professions

D. T. Wessells - 1989 - 148 pages
...a famous love poem of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850): If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only. Do not say, 'I love her...for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine. . . . For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee, — and love, So...
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God, Creation, and Revelation: A Neo-evangelical Theology, Volume 1

Paul King Jewett, Marguerite Shuster - 1991 - 562 pages
...sake only," a love "enduring through love's eternity." If thou must love me, let it be for naught, Except for love's sake only. Do not say, "I love her for her smile — her looks — her way Of speaking gently — for a trick of thought That falls in well with me, and certes...
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Digging Into Popular Culture: Theories and Methodologies in Archeology ...

Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne - 1991 - 196 pages
...Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In one of her Sonnets from the Portuguese (185) she wrote: "Do not say/'I love her for her smile— her look— her way /of speaking gently'. . .For these things in themselves, Beloved may/ be changed, or change for thee. . . But love me for love's...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
.... . 'Not Death, but Love.' (1. 13-14) EBVV; GBL; NOBE; NoP; OBEV; OBNC; WPE // thini must love me 9 forward to with hope, 102-103 26 Part of a moon was...She saw And spread her apron to it. (1. 105-108) 27 (I. 1—6) CTC; FaFP; HelP; InPS; LiTB; OBEV; OBNC; TrGrPo When we two souls 10 When our two souls...
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The Wordsworth Book of Sonnets

Masson - 1995 - 228 pages
...thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me. ALFRED TENNYSON Ifthou must love me If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except...themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee, - and love, so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping...
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