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Robert Burns

Born in Alloway, Scotland, on January 25, 1759, Robert Burns was the first of William and Agnes Burnes' seven children. His father, a tenant farmer, educated his children at home....
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	FURTHER READING


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		Caboose Thoughts by Carl Sandburg

		Dregs by César Vallejo

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		I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale

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		Last Words to Miriam by D. H. Lawrence

		Love's Secret by William Blake

		Loving and Beloved by Sir John Suckling

		Never give all the heart by W. B. Yeats

		One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

		Opal by Amy Lowell

		Sonnet 102 [If no love is, O God, what fele I so?] by Petrarch

		Sonnet 12 [Alas, so all things now do hold their peace] by Petrarch

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		The More Loving One by W. H. Auden, read by Nick Laird

		The Peace That So Lovingly Descends by Noelle Kocot

		To His Coy Love by Michael Drayton

		What Do I Care by Sara Teasdale

		What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

		Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand by Walt Whitman

		Witch-Wife by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Anna, Thy Charms
by Robert Burns

Anna, thy charms my bosom fire, And waste my soul with care; But ah! how bootless to admire, When fated to despair! Yet in thy presence, lovely Fair, To hope may be forgiven; For sure 'twere impious to despair So much in sight of heaven.
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