One Star only for Love's Heaven,

One Rose only for Love's breast, One Love only to be given.

Star that gathers all stars' glory,
Rose all sweetness of the rest,
Love that is all Life's glad story.

AUGUSTA WEBSTER.

PREFACE.

THE present work differs, it is believed, from previous

collections of the kind, in these particulars: (1) that it

consists entirely of short lyric poems, (2) that each

poem exhibits some phase of the "tender passion," and

(3) that it includes specimens of the genius of the latest,

as well as of the earliest, writers. These particulars are,

indeed, to be found separately in other compilations;

but never before, so far as I am aware, have they all

been included in one and the same volume.

Further, I have attempted-not quite unsuccessfully,

I hope to arrange the pieces in something more satis-
factory than merely chronological order. A glance at
the "Contents" will show that I have endeavoured to
describe the course of love from its beginning to its end;
placing, where possible, parallel poems side by side;
and, altogether, aiming at the completeness and variety
of a sonata, in which movement follows movement in
artistic sequence.

I need scarcely say I should have failed completely to
realize my conception of the book, had it not been for
the kind manner in which our living poets have granted
me permission to reprint their pieces; and I hasten to
acknowledge my obligations in this respect to Mrs.
Lewes ("George Eliot "), Messrs. Tennyson, Browning,

Arnold, Morris, Swinburne, Allingham, Rossetti, Mac-
Donald, and others; as well as to those publishers who
have allowed me to reproduce some poems of which
they possess the copyright.

It is my hope that this volume may be welcomed, not

only by the "maids" for whom it is primarily intended,

but by all those persons-and how numerous they are,

I need not say who are sensible to the "passion" of

which it treats.

October 17, 1873.

W. DAVENPORT ADAMS.

IN PRAISE OF VENUS (William Morris), i.

WHAT LOVE IS:

The Shepherd's Description (Sir Walter

Raleigh), ii.

A Sickness full of Woe (Samuel Daniel), iii.

LOVE THE ADVENTURER (Anonymous), iv.

FANCY (William Shakespeare), v.

LE PUITS D'AMOUR (Elizabeth Bullock), vi.

A WELL OF LOVE (George MacDonald), vii.

LOVE THE RANGER (Thomas Campbell), viii.

WHAT LOVE HAS DONE (Beaumont and Fletcher),

ix..

TRUE LOVE:

An Ever Fixed Mark (William Shakespeare), x.

Still the Same (Sir John Suckling), xi.

THE SIGNS OF LOVE:

The Perfect Lover (Sir John Suckling), xii.

Can this be Love? (George, Lord Lyttelton), xiii.

THE LOVELINESS OF LOVE (Thomas Hood), xiv.

LOVE'S THOUGHTS (Percy Bysshe Shelley), xv.

LOVE'S EMBLEMS (Beaumont and Fletcher), xvi.

LOVE-LIGHT (Hartley Coleridge), xvii.

LOVE'S LOVERS (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), xviii.

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LOVE'S ECHOES (Alfred Tennyson), xix.
THE LOOK OF LOVE (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), xx.
LOVE'S COLOURS (C. C. Fraser-Tytler), xxi.
THE SWEETS OF LOVE (John Dryden), xxii.
LOVE'S SORROws (Thomas Campbell), xxiii..
LOVE'S ETERNITY (George MacDonald), xxiv.
LOVE'S GOOD-MORROW (Thomas Heywood), xxv.
LOVE'S SERENADE:

My Lady Sweet, Arise! (William Shakespeare),
xxvi. .

Awake, Awake! (Sir William Davenant), xxvii.

THE CALL TO LOVE:

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Come, then, Belovèd (William Morris), xxviii.

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (Chris-

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The Nymph's Reply (Sir Walter Raleigh), xxx. 24

THE TIME FOR LOVE:

'Tis not Hereafter (William Shakespeare), xxxi. 25

Why delay? (Edmund Waller), xxxii.

THE HOUR OF LOVE:

Leonard (Sir Walter Scott), xxxiii..

County Guy (Sir Walter Scott), xxxiv.

LOVE'S PRESENT (Augusta Webster), xxxv..

LOVE'S SEASON, SPRING (William Shakespeare),

xxxvi.

TRUE LOVELINESS (Anonymous), xxxvii.

LOVE'S IDEAL (William Browne), xxxviii.

LOVE'S ATTIRE:

A Sweet Neglect (Ben Jonson), xxxix.

Not too Precise (Robert Herrick), xl.

Julia in Silks (Robert Herrick), xli.

Beauty's Self (Anonymous), xlii.

LOVE'S RESTING PLACE (Thomas Lodge), xliii.

LOVE OMNIPRESENT (Thomas Lodge), xliv.

LOVE EVER-PRESENT (Thomas Hood), xlv.

LOVE'S ASPIRATION:

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