Love poems

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A Relapse

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

I thought that I had done with fleshly things,
That in the azure of high thought my soul
Had learned to fly on less substantial wings
To a new Heaven, a sublimer goal.

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The Prophecy Of Famine

© Charles Churchill

  Still have I known thee for a silly swain;
Of things past help, what boots it to complain? 
Nothing but mirth can conquer fortune's spite;
No sky is heavy, if the heart be light:
Patience is sorrow's salve: what can't be cured,
So Donald right areads, must be endured.

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A Paradox

© Richard Lovelace

  I.
Tis true the beauteous Starre
  To which I first did bow
Burnt quicker, brighter far,

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The Rosicrucian

© Madison Julius Cawein

Was it her soul? or the sapphire fire
That sang like the note of a seraph's lyre?
Out of her mouth there fell no word-
She spake with her soul, as a flower speaketh.

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From CLIO

© Martha Sansom

We every Day grew dearer to each other. I was then
indeed as blind as he. I gave him every Perfection, and
began to love in earnest. How did I want a Friend to
guard me from this Precipice, where Love was leading
me, to warn me of this Serpent, who was sacking out the
Sweetness of my Soul, and laying every Art to destroy it!

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The Old Play

© Kenneth Slessor

I
IN an old play-house, in an old play,
In an old piece that has been done to death,
We dance, kind ladies, noble friends.

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The Room Above the Square

© Stephen Spender

The light in the window seemed perpetual
When you stayed in the high room for me;
It glowed above the trees through leaves
Like my certainty.

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To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth

© Phillis Wheatley

Hail, happy day, when, smiling like the morn,

Fair Freedom rose New-England to adorn:

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Faith

© Ada Cambridge

Let go the myths and creeds of groping men.
This clay knows naught - the Potter understands.
I own that Power divine beyond my ken,
And still can leave me in His shaping hands.
But, O my God, that madest me to feel,
Forgive the anguish of the turning wheel!

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The Pelican Chorus

© Edward Lear


King and Queen of the Pelicans we;

No other Birds so grand we see!

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Upon a Braid of Hair in a Heart sent by Mrs. E. H.

© Henry King

In this small Character is sent
My Loves eternal Monument.
Whil'st we shall live, know, this chain'd Heart
Is our affections counter-part.
And if we never meet, think I
Bequeath'd it as my Legacy.

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The Lady of the Lake: Canto III. - The Gathering

© Sir Walter Scott

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Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore,
  Who danced our infancy upon their knee,
And told our marvelling boyhood legends store

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An Inscription for a Temple - Dedicated to the Graces (at Woburn-Abbey)

© Samuel Rogers

Approach with reverence. There are those within,
Whose dwelling-place is Heaven. Daughters of Jove,
From them flow all the decencies of Life;
Without them nothing pleases, Virtue's self

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The Offside Leader

© William Henry Ogilvie

This is the wish, as he told it to me,

Of Driver Macpherson of Battery B.

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Sweetheart, Goodbye

© Paul Hamilton Hayne

SWEETHEART, good-bye! Our varied day
Is closing into twilight gray,
And up from bare, bleak wastes of sea
The north-wind rises mournfully;

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What Sayest Thou, Traveller

© Paul Verlaine

What sayst thou, traveller, of all thou saw'st afar?
  On every tree hangs boredom, ripening to its fall,
Didst gather it, thou smoking yon thy sad cigar,
  Black, casting an incongruous shadow on the wall?

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Elegiac Feelings American

© Gregory Corso

Aye, what happened to you, dear friend, compassionate friend,
is what is happening to everyone and thing of
planet the clamorous sadly desperate planet now
one voice less. . . expendable as the wind. . . gone,
and who'll now blow away the awful miasma of
sick, sick and dying earthflesh-soul America

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His Lady Of The Sonnets II

© Robert Norwood

Beholding you, I am Endymion,
Lost and immortal in Latmian dreams;
With Dian bending down to look upon
Her shepherd, whose æonian slumber seems
A moment, twinkling like a starry gem
Among the jewels of her diadem.

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Lilith

© Madison Julius Cawein

Yea, there are some who always seek
  The love that lasts an hour;
  And some who in love's language speak,
  Yet never know his power.

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Scenes

© George Borrow

Observe ye not yon high cliff’s brow,

Up which a wanderer clambers slow,