First Love Poems

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1. Blackberries

   by Alfred Noyes

   
   

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   Out of the sunny field they passed
   And sought the leafy shade;
   A farmer's boy with laughing lips,
   A barefoot village maid.
   

   Her lips were blue with blackberries,
   Her finger-tips were red;
   And "What shall take the stain away
   This day at all?" she said.
   

   He's pulled the rose from out his coat,
   And it was fully blown;
   He's heard the song the linnet sang,
   And they were all alone.
   

   It was a white rose took the stain
   From her dainty finger-tips;
   But, O, it was a redder flower
   Grew purple at her lips.
   

2. My Heart of Hearts

   by Ruby Archer

   
   

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   My heart of hearts is a garden fair
   All abud and abloom for you,
   And a grey stone wall goes all around
   That none without may see it is there.
   But a little wicket your love has found
   Furtively, shyly open for you.
   

   A revel of blossom, a riot of bee,
   And fragrance fine as a melody,
   A thousand windings, soft to your feet;—
   And none may win by the grey stone bound
   To my heart of hearts with its rose and rue
   And hidden wildness of wanton sweet—
   Save you, Beloved, my Love, save you.
   

3. First Love

   by J. R. Eastwood

   
   

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   There is no second love like this:
   For there is something that we miss
   In second love, however true:
   And this it is, the first was new.
   

   And I could die for her, and she
   Could smile in death to die for me:
   But hearts are frozen, old, and grey,
   When passion burns itself away.
   

   And second love is not the same:
   It is as though the heat and flame
   Should glow and sparkle in the fire
   Where wasted ashes now expire.
   

   The lips are cold, the lips we kiss:
   It is the fresh delight we miss
   In second love: the first was new,
   And was and is for ever true.
   

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