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The term "naaman and the little maid" has been searched for 16 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on September 5th, 2005.

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1. Ho Xuan Huong

Poems

1. Upon Prew His Maid - written by Robert Herrick
Read 339 times on Poetry Connection.

In this little Urne is laid
Prewdence Baldwin (once my maid)
From whose happy spark here let
Spring the purple violet. (Read full poem)

2. 557. Song—Fairest Maid on Devon’s Banks - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.. Published in 1796. Read 607 times on Poetry Connection.

Chorus—Fairest maid on Devon banks,
      Crystal Devon, winding Devon,
Wilt thou lay that frown aside,
      And smile as thou wert wont to do?
 

FULL well thou know’st I love thee dear,
Couldst thou to malice lend an ear!
O did not Love... (Read full poem)

3. Maid Quiet - written by William Butler Yeats
From The Wind Among The Reeds. Published in 1899. Read 869 times on Poetry Connection.

Where has Maid Quiet gone to,
Nodding her russet hood?
The winds that awakened the stars
Are blowing through my blood.
O how could I be so calm
When she rose up to depart?
Now words that called up the lightning
Are hurtling through my heart.(Read full poem)

4. THE GOLDSMITH'S APPRENTICE. - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems. Published in 1853. Read 737 times on Poetry Connection.

My neighbour, none can e'er deny,

Is a most beauteous maid;
Her shop is ever in mine eye,

When working at my trade.

To ring and chain I hammer then

The wire of gold assay'd,
And think the while: "For Kate, oh when

Will such a ring be... (Read full poem)

5. The Boola-Boola Maid - written by Robert William Service
From Bar-Room Ballads. Read 633 times on Poetry Connection.

In the wilds of Madagascar, Dwelt a Boola-boola maid;
For her hand young men would ask her, But she always was afraid.
Oh that Boola-boola maid She was living in the shade Of a spreading Yum-yum tree;
And - when the day was done At the setting of... (Read full poem)

6. Maid of Athens, ere we part - written by Lord Byron
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Maid of Athens, ere we part, 
Give, oh, give back my heart! 
Or, since that has left my breast, 
Keep it now, and take the rest! 
Hear my vow before I go, 
Zoë mou sas agapo. 

By those tresses unconfined, 
Wooed by each Aegean wind; 
By... (Read full poem)

7. Where Be Ye Going, You Devon Maid? - written by John Keats
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Where be ye going, you Devon maid?
      And what have ye there i' the basket?
Ye tight little fairy, just fresh from the dairy,
      Will ye give me some cream if I ask it?

I love your meads, and I love your flowers,
      And I love your junkets... (Read full poem)

8. Cowardice - written by Robert William Service
From Carols of an Old Codger. Read 557 times on Poetry Connection.

Although you deem it far from nice,
         And it perchance may hurt you,
Let me suggest that cowardice
         Can masquerade as virtue;
And many a maid remains a maid
         Because she is afraid.
         
And many a man is chaste because... (Read full poem)

9. Song. Good Counsel to a Young Maid - written by Thomas Carew
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GAZE not on thy beauty's pride, 
Tender maid, in the false tide 
That from lovers' eyes doth slide. 
Let thy faithful crystal show 
How thy colours come and go : 
Beauty takes a foil from woe. 

Love, that in those smooth streams lies... (Read full poem)

10. THE CRUEL MAID - written by Robert Herrick
Read 359 times on Poetry Connection.

--AND, cruel maid, because I see
You scornful of my love, and me,
I'll trouble you no more, but go
My way, where you shall never know
What is become of me; there I
Will find me out a path to die,
Or learn some way how to forget
You and your... (Read full poem)

11. Treat 'Em Rough - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes for My Rags. Read 500 times on Poetry Connection.

First time I dared propose,
          A callow lad was I;
I donned my Sunday clothes,
          I wore my Old School Tie.
Awaiting me Louise
          Was dolled to beat the band,
So going on my knees
          I begged her hand.

Oh yes, she gave... (Read full poem)

12. THE MAD MAID'S SONG - written by Robert Herrick
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Good morrow to the day so fair;
Good morning, sir, to you;
Good morrow to mine own torn hair,
Bedabbled with the dew.

Good morning to this primrose too;
Good morrow to each maid;
That will with flowers the tomb bestrew
Wherein my Love is... (Read full poem)

13. Negress In Notre Dame - written by Robert William Service
From Lyrics of a Low Brow. Read 545 times on Poetry Connection.

When I attended Mass today
A coloured maid sat down by me,
And as I watched her kneel and pray,
Her reverence was good to see.
For whether there may be or no'
A merciful and mighty God,
The love for Him is like a glow
That glorifies the meanest... (Read full poem)

14. The Widow - written by Thomas Hardy
Read 512 times on Poetry Connection.

By Mellstock Lodge and Avenue 
   Towards her door I went, 
And sunset on her window-panes 
   Reflected our intent. 

The creeper on the gable nigh 
   Was fired to more than red 
And when I came to halt thereby 
   "Bright as my joy!" I... (Read full poem)

15. A True Maid - written by Matthew Prior
Read 803 times on Poetry Connection.

No, no; for my virginity,
When I lose that, says Rose, I'll die:
Behind the elms last night, cried Dick,
Rose, were you not extremely sick? (Read full poem)

16. 170. Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.. Published in 1787. Read 864 times on Poetry Connection.

FAIR maid, you need not take the hint,
  Nor idle texts pursue:
’Twas guilty sinners that he meant,
  Not Angels such as you.(Read full poem)

17. UPON A MAID - written by Robert Herrick
Read 381 times on Poetry Connection.

Here she lies, in bed of spice,
Fair as Eve in paradise;
For her beauty, it was such,
Poets could not praise too much.
Virgins come, and in a ring
Her supremest REQUIEM sing;
Then depart, but see ye tread
Lightly, lightly o'er the dead.(Read full poem)

18. May Miracle - written by Robert William Service
From Lyrics of a Low Brow. Read 398 times on Poetry Connection.

On this festive first of May,
Wending wistfully my way
Three sad sights I saw today.

The first was such a lovely lad
He lit with grace the sordid street;
Yet in a monk's robe he was clad,
With tonsured head and sandalled feet.
Though handsome as a... (Read full poem)

19. 524. Song—The lass that made the bed to me - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.. Published in 1795. Read 529 times on Poetry Connection.

WHEN Januar’ wind was blawing cauld,
  As to the north I took my way,
The mirksome night did me enfauld,
  I knew na where to lodge till day:
 

By my gude luck a maid I met,
  Just in the middle o’ my care,
And kindly she did me invite... (Read full poem)

20. Arcady Unheeding - written by Siegfried Sassoon
Read 404 times on Poetry Connection.

Shepherds go whistling on their way 
In the spring season of the year; 
One watches weather-signs of day; 
One of his maid most dear 
Dreams; and they do not hear
The birds that sing and sing; they do not see 
Wide wealds of blue beyond their... (Read full poem)

21. The Three Sorts of Friends (fragment) - written by Samuel Coleridge
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 	Though friendships differ endless in degree ,
The sorts , methinks, may be reduced to three.
Ac quaintance many, and Con quaintance few;
But for In quaintance I know only two--
The friend I've mourned with, and the maid I woo! (Read full poem)

22. A HYMN TO VENUS AND CUPID - written by Robert Herrick
Read 444 times on Poetry Connection.

Sea-born goddess, let me be
By thy son thus graced, and thee,
That whene'er I woo, I find
Virgins coy, but not unkind.
Let me, when I kiss a maid,
Taste her lips, so overlaid
With love's sirop, that I may
In your temple, when I pray,
Kiss... (Read full poem)

23. In Time Of "The Breaking Of Nations" - written by Thomas Hardy
Read 1153 times on Poetry Connection.

I
Only a man harrowing clods
In a slow silent walk
With an old horse that stumbles and nods
Half asleep as they stalk.

       II
Only thin smoke without flame
From the heaps of couch-grass;
Yet this will go onwards the same
Though Dynasties pass.... (Read full poem)

24. THE MAID OF THE MILL'S REPENTANCE. - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems. Published in 1853. Read 612 times on Poetry Connection.

YOUTH.

AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth

From out my house, I tell thee!
Or else I needs must, in my wrath,

Expel thee!
What's this thou singest so falsely, forsooth,
Of love and a maiden's silent truth?

Who'll trust to such a... (Read full poem)

25. A Bachelor - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes for My Rags. Read 892 times on Poetry Connection.

'Why keep a cow when I can buy,'
          Said he, 'the milk I need,'
I wanted to spit in his eye
          Of selfishness and greed;
But did not, for the reason he
          Was stronger than I be.

I told him: ''Tis our human fate,
          For... (Read full poem)

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