Love poems

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Gigantic daughter of the West,

© Alfred Tennyson

Gigantic daughter of the West,

  We drink to thee across the flood,

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Laurance - [Part 2]

© Jean Ingelow

Then looking hard upon her, came to him
The power to feel and to perceive. Her teeth
Chattered, and all her limbs with shuddering failed,
And in her threadbare shawl was wrapped a child
That looked on him with wondering, wistful eyes.

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Sappho II

© Sara Teasdale

Oh Litis, little slave, why will you sleep?
These long Egyptian noons bend down your head
Bowed like the yarrow with a yellow bee.
There, lift your eyes no man has ever kindled,

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My Daughter and Apple Pie

© Raymond Carver


She serves me a piece of it a few minutes

out of the oven. A little steam rises

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The Hollow

© Madison Julius Cawein

  Fleet swallows soared and darted
  'Neath empty vaults of blue;
  Thick leaves close clung or parted
  To let the sunlight through;
  Each wild rose, honey-hearted,
  Bowed full of living dew.

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Dedication - The Poems Of Goeth

© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By new-born flow'rs that full of dew-drops hung;
The youthful day awoke with ecstacy,
And all things quicken'd were, to quicken me.

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Untitled 8

© Owen Suffolk

Thou sinless and sweet one - thy voice is a strain

Which yields solace to sadness, and balm to my pain,

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When First We Faced

© Philip Larkin

When first we faced, and touching showed
How well we knew the early moves,
Behind the moonlight and the frost,
The excitement and the gratitude,
There stood how much our meeting owed
To other meetings, other loves.

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Rejected

© Henry Lawson

You might try to drown the sorrow, but the drink has no effect;
  You cannot stand the barmaid with her coarse and vulgar wit;
And so you seek the street again, and start for home direct,
  When you’re hit, old man—hard hit.

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Bion’s Song Of Eros

© Eugene Field

Eros is the god of love;

  He and I are hand-in-glove.

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To Diane De Poitiers

© Clement Marot

Farewell! since vain is all my care,
  Far, in some desert rude,
I'll hide my weakness, my despair:
  And, 'midst my solitude,
I'll pray, that, should another move thee,
He may as fondly, truly love thee.

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Sonnet I "Poet! If on a Lasting Fame Be Bent"

© Henry Timrod

Poet! if on a lasting fame be bent

Thy unperturbing hopes, thou will not roam

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The Kalevala - Rune XXXIX

© Elias Lönnrot

WAINAMOINEN'S SAILING.


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The Portrait -- English Translation

© Rabindranath Tagore

Are you a mere portrait

Drawn on a canvas?

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Hope

© Mathilde Blind

But tired of these he craved a wider scope:
Then fair as Pallas from the brain of Jove
From his deep wish there sprang, full-armed, to cope
With all life's ills, even very death in love,
The only thing man never wearies of-
His own creation-visionary Hope.

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Child's Song In Spring

© Edith Nesbit

THE silver birch is a dainty lady,
  She wears a satin gown;
The elm tree makes the old churchyard shady,
  She will not live in town.

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The Choice Of Sweet Shy Clare

© Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

Fair as a wreath of fresh spring flowers, a band of maidens lay
On the velvet sward—enjoying the golden summer day;
And many a ringing silv’ry laugh on the calm air clearly fell,
With fancies sweet, which their rosy lips, half unwilling, seemed to tell.

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The Stethoscope Song. A Professional Ballad

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

THERE was a young man in Boston town,
He bought him a stethoscope nice and new,
All mounted and finished and polished down,
With an ivory cap and a stopper too.

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Dark House

© Sylvia Plath

This is a dark house, very big.

I made it myself,