Love poems

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Sleep

© Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall

HERE is a house, so great, so wide

It will take in the whole world's pride.

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The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-grinder

© George Canning


 "Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going?
 Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order-
 Bleak blows the blast;-your hat has got a hole in't,
  So have your breeches!

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Lycus the Centaur

© Thomas Hood

FROM AN UNROLLED MANUSCRIPT OF APOLLONIUS CURIUS

(The Argument: Lycus, detained by Circe in her magical dominion, is beloved by a Water Nymph, who, desiring to render him immortal, has recourse to the Sorceress. Circe gives her an incantation to pronounce, which should turn Lycus into a horse; but the horrible effect of the charm causing her to break off in the midst, he becomes a Centaur).

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The Tendril's Faith

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

A under the snow in the dark and the cold,

pale little sprout was humming;

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Solomon on the Vanity of the World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Power. Book III.

© Matthew Prior

Come then, my soul: I call thee by that name,
Thou busy thing, from whence I know I am;
For, knowing that I am, I know thou art,
Since that must needs exist which can impart:
But how thou camest to be, or whence thy spring,
For various of thee priests and poets sing.

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The Hay Field

© Ethelwyn Wetherald

With slender arms outstretching in the sun

The grass lies dead;

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Asoka

© Robert Laurence Binyon

I
Gentle as fine rain falling from the night,
The first beams from the Indian moon at full
Steal through the boughs, and brighter and more bright

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The Dead

© Sylvia Plath

Revolving in oval loops of solar speed,
Couched in cauls of clay as in holy robes,
Dead men render love and war no heed,
Lulled in the ample womb of the full-tilt globe.

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Frailtie

© George Herbert

Lord, in my silence how do I despise

  What upon trust

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Lepanto

© Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath
(Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath.)
And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain,
Up which a lean and foolish knight forever rides in vain,
And he smiles, but not as Sultans smile, and settles back the blade. . .

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Nina's Reply (Les Reparties De Nina)

© Arthur Rimbaud

HE - Your breast on my breast,
Eh ? We could go,
With our nostrils full of air,
Into the cool light

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The Hills

© Madison Julius Cawein

There is no joy of earth that thrills

  My bosom like the far-off hills!

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The Formless Brahma Has Incarnated As Krishna

© Sant Surdas

Krishna awoke;

Yashoda was enraptured to see his face blooming as a lotus that captures the rising sun's first rays. Taking off the coverlet she said, 'awake, darling boy, awake, your loveliness makes me swoon your bewitching face is like the full moon seen through the sea's foam when it was churned for nectar.'

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Widows

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

The world was widowed by the death of Christ:
Vainly its suffering soul for peace has sought
And found it not.
For nothing, nothing, nothing has sufficed
To bring back comfort to the stricken house
From whence has gone the Master and the Spouse.

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Elegy On The Death Of Mr. Phillips

© Thomas Chatterton

No more I hail the morning's golden gleam,
No more the wonders of the view I sing;
Friendship requires a melancholy theme,
At her command the awful lyre I string!

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Propertius's Bid For Immortality

© Franklin Pierce Adams


Let us return, then, for a time,
To our accustomed round of rhyme;
And let my songs' familiar art
Not fail to move my lady's heart.

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The Message Of The March Wind

© William Morris

Fair now is the springtide, now earth lies beholding
With the eyes of a lover, the face of the sun;
Long lasteth the daylight, and hope is enfolding
The green-growing acres with increase begun.

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When I was Young and Ignorant

© Patrick Barrington

When I was young and ignorant I loved a Miss McDougall,

Our days were spent in happiness, although our means were frugal;

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Jerusalem Delivered - Book 04 - part 04

© Torquato Tasso

XLIX

"Three times the shape of my dear mother came,

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Reciprocity

© George MacDonald

Her mother, Elfie older grown,
One evening, for adieu,
Said, "You'll not mind being left alone,
For God takes care of you!"