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  • He had loved poetry for beauty's sake; but since he met her the gates to the vast field of love-poetry had been opened wide.

    Chapter 7 2010

  • A study in poetic mysticism and the evolution of love-poetry.

    Rodolphe Louis Mégroz Steve 2009

  • Yet one well-known anthology was introduced by the assertion that such love-poetry was superior to ‘affected and artificial’ English love-songs like ‘Drink to me only with thine eyes’15—‘affected and artificial’, the very words used by English Victorians who wrote for the newspapers to discourage capricious, personal writing.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Yet one well-known anthology was introduced by the assertion that such love-poetry was superior to ‘affected and artificial’ English love-songs like ‘Drink to me only with thine eyes’15—‘affected and artificial’, the very words used by English Victorians who wrote for the newspapers to discourage capricious, personal writing.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Yet one well-known anthology was introduced by the assertion that such love-poetry was superior to ‘affected and artificial’ English love-songs like ‘Drink to me only with thine eyes’15—‘affected and artificial’, the very words used by English Victorians who wrote for the newspapers to discourage capricious, personal writing.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Yet one well-known anthology was introduced by the assertion that such love-poetry was superior to ‘affected and artificial’ English love-songs like ‘Drink to me only with thine eyes’15—‘affected and artificial’, the very words used by English Victorians who wrote for the newspapers to discourage capricious, personal writing.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • As for Ayesha: when she encountered the Mirza on the balcony, or in the garden as he wandered reading Urdu love-poetry, she was invariably deferential and shy; but her good behaviour, coupled with the total absence of any spark of erotic interest, drove Saeed further and further into the helplessness of his despair.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • Yet one well-known anthology was introduced by the assertion that such love-poetry was superior to ‘affected and artificial’ English love-songs like ‘Drink to me only with thine eyes’15—‘affected and artificial’, the very words used by English Victorians who wrote for the newspapers to discourage capricious, personal writing.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Yet one well-known anthology was introduced by the assertion that such love-poetry was superior to ‘affected and artificial’ English love-songs like ‘Drink to me only with thine eyes’15—‘affected and artificial’, the very words used by English Victorians who wrote for the newspapers to discourage capricious, personal writing.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Kalidasa's love-poetry rings as true in our ears as it did in his countrymen's ears fifteen hundred years ago.

    Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Kalidasa

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