Because I Love You; Poems of Love (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1894. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ""THE Editor wishes to thank most cordially the authors who have so kindly permitted the use of their poems, and the publishers for permission to use copyrighted poems, -- Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, Roberls Brothers, Macmillan & Co., George Gottsberger Peck; Houghton, Mifflin & Co., and others, -- by whose permission, and by arrangement with whom, selections have been made from the following authors, whose works they publish: -- George Arnold. Alice And Phcebe Cary. Ralph Waldo Emerson. John Hay. Oliver Wendell Holmes. William Dean Howells. George Houghton. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson. Lucy Larcom. Oscar Laighton. Henry Wadsworth Long- Fellow. James Russell Lowell. S. Weir Mitchell. River Forkst, Ill. E. S. Phelps-ward. Laura C. Redden. Margaret J. Preston. John G. Saxe. Frank Dempster Sherman. Edmund Clarence Sted- Man. Stuart Sterne. Bayard Taylor. Celia Thaxter. Edith M. Thomas. John Greenleaf Whittier. Elizabeth Whittier. Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. A. E. M. LIST OF AUTHORS. Addison, Joseph. With what a graceful tenderness he loves ... 113 Love is not to be reasoned down or lost .... 140 Allen, Elizabeth Akers. Four Words 80 Angelo, Michael. Sonnet, "If it be true that any beauteous thing" 51 Arnold, Edwin. From " The Book of Love" 5 A Lover with his Loved One sailed the Sea ... 10 Oh, if thou be'st True Lover 37 On a Cyclamen 106 Too full of Love my soul is to find place.... 152 Naught is the same " as if Love had not been" . 196 Not Death is strong enough to part asunder . . 212 He and She 213 Arnold, Matthew. Calais Sands 55 Lovers 116 Ah, Love I let us be true 148 Arnold, George. Among the Heather 165 A Farewell 211 Armstrong, George Francis. I loved thee for that dear deep lovingness ... 54 Bailey, Philip James. Page If au...