Love poems

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Juana

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

The night-wind shook the tapestry round an ancient palace-room,
And torches, as it rose and fell, waved thro' the gorgeous gloom,
And o'er a shadowy regal couch threw fitful gleams and red,
Where a woman with long raven hair sat watching by the dead.

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London Stone

© Rudyard Kipling

  WHEN you come to London Town,
  (Grieving-grieving!)
  Bring your flowers and lay them down
  At the place of grieving.

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Dog

© Harold Monro

You little friend, your nose is ready; you sniff,
Asking for that expected walk,
(Your nostrils full of the happy rabbit-whiff)
And almost talk.

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One

© Conrad Aiken

One, where the pale sea foamed at the yellow sand,
With wave upon slowly shattering wave,
Turned to the city of towers as evening fell;
And slowly walked by the darkening road toward it;
And saw how the towers darkened against the sky;
And across the distance heard the toll of a bell.

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Greek Funeral Chant Or Myriologue

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

A WAIL was heard around the bed, the death-bed of the young,
Amidst her tears the Funeral Chant a mournful mother sung.
-"Ianthis! dost thou sleep?-Thou sleep'st!-but this is not the rest,
The breathing and the rosy calm, I have pillow'd on my breast!

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Elegy X. To Fortune, Suggesting His Motive for Repining at Her Dispensations

© William Shenstone

Ask not the cause why this rebellious tongue
Loads with fresh curses thy detested sway!
Ask not, thus branded in my softest song,
Why stands the flatter'd name, which all obey!

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Buddha And Brahma

© Henry Brooks Adams

Then gently, still in silence, lost in thought,
The Buddha raised the Lotus in his hand,
His eyes bent downward, fixed upon the flower.
No more! A moment so he held it only,
Then his hand sank into its former rest.

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His Dream Of Skyland

© Li Po

The seafarers tell of the Eastern Isle of Bliss,

It is lost in a wilderness of misty sea waves.

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The Ideal

© Madison Julius Cawein

Thee have I seen in some waste Arden old,
  A white-browed maiden by a foaming stream,
  With eyes profound and looks like threaded gold,
  And features like a dream.

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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXIV

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

HE APPEALS AGAINST HIS BOND
In my distress Love made me sign a bond,
A cruel bond. 'Twas by necessity
Wrung from a foolish heart, alas, too fond,

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Sonnet XX: Gracious Moonlight

© Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Even as the moon grows queenlier in mid-space

When the sky darkens, and her cloud-rapt car

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The Wonder-Working Magician - Act III

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

DEMON.  Why, how is this, that using your free-will
More than my precept meant,
Say for what end, what object, what intent,
Through ignorance or boldness can it be,
You thus come forth the sun's bright face to see?

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Skin of Light

© Rene Daumal

The skin of light enveloping this world lacks depth and I can actually see the black night of all these

similar bodies beneath the trembling veil and light of myself it is this night that even the mask of the

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Magnetism

© Emma Lazarus

By the impulse of my will,

By the red flame in my blood,

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In Making Bodies Love Could Not Express

© Thomas Traherne

In making bodies Love could not express

Itself, or art, unless it made them less.

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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXI

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

TO ONE EXCUSING HIS POVERTY
Ah! love, impute it not to me a sin
That my poor soul thus beggared comes to thee.
My soul a pilgrim was, in search of thine,

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Toussaint L’Ouverture

© John Greenleaf Whittier

'T WAS night. The tranquil moonlight smile
With which Heaven dreams of Earth, shed down
Its beauty on the Indian isle, —
On broad green field and white-walled town;

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Discoverer Of The North Cape. A Leaf From King Alfred's Orosius. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Othere, the old sea-captain,
  Who dwelt in Helgoland,
To King Alfred, the Lover of Truth,
Brought a snow-white walrus-tooth,
  Which he held in his brown right hand.

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Christmas Eve

© Mathilde Blind

But I-a waif on earth where'er I roam-
Uprooted with life's bleeding hopes and fears
From that one heart that was my heart's sole home,
Feel the old pang pierce through the severing years,
And as I think upon the years to come
That fair star trembles through my falling tears.

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The Bard

© William Gilmore Simms

Where dwells the spirit of the Bard-what sky

Persuades his daring wing,-