Love poems
/ page 49 of 1285 /The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne
© Gelett Burgess
WAKE! For the Hack can scatter into flightShakespere and Dante in a single Night! The Penny-a-liner is Abroad, and strikesOur Modern Literature with blithering Blight.
The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church Rome, 15--
© Robert Browning
Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity!Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back?Nephews--sons mine
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXXVIII
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
First time he kissed me, he but only kissedThe fingers of this hand wherewith I write;And ever since, it grew more clean and white,Slow to world-greetings, quick with its
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXXVII
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should makeOf all that strong divineness which I knowFor thine and thee, an image only soFormed of the sand, and fit to shift and break
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXXVI
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When we met first and loved, I did not buildUpon the event with marble
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXXV
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchangeAnd be all to me? Shall I never missHome-talk and blessing and the common kissThat comes to each in turn, nor count it strange,When I look up, to drop on a new rangeOf walls and floors, another home than this?Nay, wilt thou fill that place by me which isFilled by dead eyes too tender to know change?That's hardest
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXXIX
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Because thou hast the power and own'st the graceTo look through and behind this mask of me(Against which, years have beat thus blanchinglyWith their rains,) and behold my soul's true face,The dim and weary witness of life's race,-Because thou hast the faith and love to see,Through that same soul's distracting lethargy,The patient angel waiting for a placeIn the new Heavens,-because nor sin nor woe,Nor God's infliction, nor death's neighbourhood,Nor all which others viewing, turn to go,Nor all which makes me tired of all, self-viewed,-Nothing repels thee,
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXXIII
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hearThe name I used to run at, when a child,From innocent play, and leave the cowslips piled,To glance up in some face that proved me dearWith the look of its eyes
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXXII
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The first time that the sun rose on thine oathTo love me, I looked forward to the moonTo slacken all those bonds which seemed too soonAnd quickly tied to make a lasting troth
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXX
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I see thine image through my tears to-night,And yet to-day I saw thee smiling
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXVIII
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!And yet they seem alive and quiveringAgainst my tremulous hands which loose the stringAnd let them drop down on my knee to-night
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXVII
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My own Belovèd, who hast lifted meFrom this drear flat of earth where I was thrown,And, in betwixt the languid ringlets, blownA life-breath, till the forehead hopefullyShines out again, as all the angels see,Before thy saving kiss! My own, my own,Who camest to me when the world was gone,And I who looked for only God, found thee!I find thee; I am safe, and strong, and glad
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXIV
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Let the world's sharpness like a clasping knifeShut in upon itself and do no harmIn this close hand of Love, now soft and warm,And let us hear no sound of human strifeAfter the click of the shutting
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXIII
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead,Wouldst thou miss any life in losing mine?And would the sun for thee more coldly shineBecause of grave-damps falling round my head?I marvelled, my Belovèd, when I readThy thought so in the letter
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXII
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When our two souls stand up erect and strong,Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,Until the lengthening wings break into fireAt either curvèd point,-what bitter wrongCan the earth do to us, that we should not longBe here contented? Think! In mounting higher,The angels would press on us and aspireTo drop some golden orb of perfect songInto our deep, dear silence
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXI
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Say over again, and yet once over again,That thou dost love me
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XVIII
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I never gave a lock of hair awayTo a man, Dearest, except this to thee,Which now upon my fingers thoughtfullyI ring out to the full brown length and say
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XVI
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And yet, because thou overcomest so,Because thou art more noble and like a king,Thou canst prevail against my fears and flingThy purple round me, till my heart shall growToo close against thine heart henceforth to knowHow it shook when alone
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XV
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wearToo calm and sad a face in front of thine;For we two look two ways, and cannot shineWith the same sunlight on our brow and hair
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XLIV
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowersPlucked in the garden, all the summer through,And winter, and it seemed as if they grewIn this close room, nor missed the sun and showers