Francis William Bourdillon Love Poems

• 1. Excelsior
  If one should strive to reach a star,
  He would not build a ladder high,
  Seek foot by foot to climb so far,
  And step by step ascend the sky;
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• 2. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
  The night has a thousand eyes,
  And the day but one;
  Yet the light of the bright world dies
  With the dying sun.
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• 3. The Home Of My Heart
  Not here in the populous town,
  In the playhouse or mart,
  Not here in the ways gray and brown,
  Bnt afar on the green-swelling down,
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• 4. The Regions Of Love
  Who knows the deeps, where the water sleeps
  Leagues from the light away?
  Who knows the heights, where myriad lights
  Fill heaven with endless day?
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• 5. Eurydice
  HE came to call me back from death
  To the bright world above.
  I hear him yet with trembling breath
  Low calling, â??O sweet love!
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• 6. Night
  The night has a thousand eyes,
  And the day but one;
  Yet the light of the bright world dies
  With the dying sun.
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• 7. Sonnet I
  Oft had I felt, like pure Endymion,
  Such love for the sweet moon, that I had well
  Believed her able on earth to love and dwell
  With whatso man she set her love upon;
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• 8. Sonnet Ii
  As strong, as deep, as wide as is the sea,
  Though by the wind made restless as the wind,
  By billows fretted and by rocks confined,
  So strong, so deep, so wide my love for thee.
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