Love poems

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In Egypt

© Virna Sheard

All day the wife of Pharaoh had paced the palace hall
  Or the long white pillared court that was open to the sky;
A passion of wild restlessness ensnared her in its thrall
  While she fought a fear within her--a thing that would not die.

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Songs of the Autumn Nights

© George MacDonald

O night, send up the harvest moon
To walk about the fields,
And make of midnight magic noon
On lonely tarns and wealds.

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Opportunity

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

GRANNY'S gone a-visitin',

Seen huh git huh shawl

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Ode to Walt Whitman

© Federico Garcia Lorca

By the East River and the Bronx
boys were singing, exposing their waists
with the wheel, with oil, leather, and the hammer.
Ninety thousand miners taking silver from the rocks
and children drawing stairs and perspectives.

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Elegy XVI. He Suggests the Advantage of Birth To a Person of Merit

© William Shenstone

When genius, graced with lineal splendour, glows,
When title shines, with ambient virtues crown'd,
Like some fair almond's flowery pomp it shows,
The pride, the perfume, of the regions round.

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Two Lovers And A Beachcomber By The Real Sea

© Sylvia Plath

Cold and final, the imagination
Shuts down its fabled summer house;
Blue views are boarded up; our sweet vacation
Dwindles in the hour-glass.

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Pelleas And Ettarre

© Alfred Tennyson

King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap
Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat
In hall at old Caerleon, the high doors
Were softly sundered, and through these a youth,
Pelleas, and the sweet smell of the fields
Past, and the sunshine came along with him.

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The Chapel Royal St. James’s, On The 10th February, 1840

© Caroline Norton

But brightly to the last,
Fair Fortune shine, with calm and steady ray,
Upon the tenor of thy happy way;
A future like the past:
And every prayer by loyal subjects said,
Bring down a separate blessing on thy head!

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Cecilia's Dream

© Carlo Goldoni

I dreamed that in a garden I reposed,

Beside a fount fed by a mountain stream

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Beside The Sea

© Isabella Valancy Crawford

ONE time he dreamed beside a sea
 That laid a mane of mimic stars
In fondling quiet on the knee
 Of one tall, pearlèd cliff; the bars
Of golden beaches upward swept;
Pine-scented shadows seaward crept.

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The Star Of Bethlehem

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Where Time the measure of his hours
By changeful bud and blossom keeps,
And, like a young bride crowned with flowers,
Fair Shiraz in her garden sleeps;

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The Devil's Drive: An Unfinished Rhapsody

© George Gordon Byron

'I have a state-coach at Carlton House,
  A chariot in Seymour Place;
But they're lent to two friends, who make me amends,
  By driving my favourite pace:
And they handle their reins with such a grace,
I have something for both at the end of their race.

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Song

© James Thomson

When blooming spring

Arrays the laughing fields in green,

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Hymn VI. Behold! th' Ambassador Divine

© John Logan

Behold! th' Ambassador Divine,
Descending from above,
To publish to mankind the law
Of everlasting love!

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Book Eighth: Retrospect--Love Of Nature Leading To Love Of Man

© William Wordsworth

WHAT sounds are those, Helvellyn, that are heard

Up to thy summit, through the depth of air

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Reason has Moons

© Ralph Hodgson

Reason has moons, but moons not hers,

Lie mirror'd on the sea,

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A Tale Of Society As It Is: From Facts, 1811

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

I.
She was an aged woman; and the years
Which she had numbered on her toilsome way
Had bowed her natural powers to decay.

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Only We

© Richard Monckton Milnes

Dream no more that grief and pain
Could such hearts as ours enchain,
Safe from loss and safe from gain,
Free, as love makes free.

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"Until Her Death."

© Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

UNTIL her death!" the words read strange yet real,
Like things afar off suddenly brought near:--
Will it be slow or speedy, full of fear,
Or calm as a spent day of peace ideal?
II.

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The Braes of Yarrow

© John Logan

"Thy braes were bonny, Yarrow stream!

 When first on them I met my lover;