Love poems

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The Parish Register - Part III: Burials

© George Crabbe

drown'd.
"Is this a landsman's love? Be certain then,
"We part for ever!"--and they cried, "Amen!"
  His words were truth's:- Some forty summers

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Ruan’s Voyage

© Robert Laurence Binyon

``Fisherman, fisherman, help!'' she cried.
Ruan turned his boat aside
Swiftly in the eddying tide.

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Night In State Street

© Harriet Monroe

Art thou he?—
The seer and sage, the hero and lover—yea,
The man of men, then away from the haughty
day
Come with me!

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The Ballad Of The Dark Ladie. A Fragment.

© Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Beneath yon birch with silver bark,
And boughs so pendulous and fair,
The brook falls scatter'd down the rock:
And all is mossy there!

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When Love was Born

© Sara Teasdale

When Love was born I think he lay
Right warm on Venus' breast,
And whiles he smiled and whiles would play
And whiles would take his rest.

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The Conqueror's Sleep

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Sleep 'midst thy banners furl'd!
Yes! thou art there, upon thy buckler lying,
With the soft wind unfelt around thee sighing,
Thou chief of hosts, whose trumpet shakes the world!
Sleep while the babe sleeps on its mother's breast-
-Oh! strong is night-for thou too art at rest!

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On Church Communion - Part III.

© John Byrom

A Local union, on the other hand,
Though crowded numbers should together stand,
Joining in one same Form of pray'r and praise,
Or Creed express'd in regulated phrase;
Or ought beside - though it assume the name
Of Christian-Church, may want to real claim.

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Ballade Of Roulette

© Andrew Lang

The prize that the pleasure enhances?
The prize is--at last to forget
The changes, the chops, and the chances -
The wheel of Dame Fortune's roulette.

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The Missionary - Canto Fourth

© William Lisle Bowles

  Earth upon the billet heap;
  So may a tyrant's heart be buried deep!
  The dark woods echoed to the long acclaim,
  Accursed be his nation and his name! 

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Fa Leszek (I'll Be a Tree)

© Sandor Petofi

  Fa leszek, ha fának vagy virága.
  Ha harmat vagy: én virág leszek.
  Harmat leszek, ha te napsugár vagy...
  Csak, hogy lényink egyesüljenek.

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Tears, Idle Tears

© Alfred Tennyson

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

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A Memorial

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Oh, thicker, deeper, darker growing,
The solemn vista to the tomb
Must know henceforth another shadow,
And give another cypress room.

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An Athenian Reverie

© Archibald Lampman

How the returning days, one after one,

Came ever in their rhythmic round, unchanged,

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Acushla

© Roderic Quinn

I NAMED her twice, I named her thrice,
I named her ten times over;
The wind heard, and the singing bird,
And the bee in the creamy clover.

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A Prophecy

© Walter Savage Landor

PROUD word you never spoke, but you will speak
  Four not exempt from pride some future day.
Resting on one white hand a warm wet cheek,
  Over my open volume you will say,
  “This man loved me!” then rise and trip away.  

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Effigy Of A Nun

© Sara Teasdale

Infinite gentleness, infinite irony
Are in this face with fast-sealed eyes,
And round this mouth that learned in loneliness
How useless their wisdom is to the wise.

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Hellenistics

© Robinson Jeffers

I look at the Greek-derived design that nourished my infancy
this Wedgwood copy of the Portland vase:
Someone had given it to my father my eyes at five years old
used to devour it by the hour.

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Little White Rose

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

Little white rose that I loved, I loved,

Roisin ban, Roisin ban!

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Margaret Love Peacock, for her tombstone, 1826

© Thomas Love Peacock

Long night succeeds thy little day;
  Oh blighted blossom! can it be,
That this grey stone, and grassy clay,
  Have clos'd our anxious care of thee?

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My Cousin From Pall Mall

© Arthur Patchett Martin

There’s nothing so exasperates a true Australian youth,
Whatever be his rank in life, be he cultured or uncouth,
As the manner of a London swell. Now it chanced, the other day,
That one came out, consigned to me—a cousin, by the way.