Love poems

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380. Song—Saw ye Bonie Lesley

© Robert Burns

O SAW ye bonie Lesley,
As she gaed o’er the Border?
She’s gane, like Alexander,
To spread her conquests farther.

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428. Song—Phillis the Queen o’ the fair

© Robert Burns

ADOWN winding Nith I did wander,
To mark the sweet flowers as they spring;
Adown winding Nith I did wander,
Of Phillis to muse and to sing.

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262. Delia: An Ode

© Robert Burns

FAIR the face of orient day,
Fair the tints of op’ning rose;
But fairer still my Delia dawns,
More lovely far her beauty shows.

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72. Song—Young Peggy Blooms

© Robert Burns

YOUNG Peggy blooms our boniest lass,
Her blush is like the morning,
The rosy dawn, the springing grass,
With early gems adorning.

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552. Complimentary versicles to Jessie Lewars

© Robert Burns

JESSIE’S ILLNESSSay, sages, what’s the charm on earth
Can turn Death’s dart aside!
It is not purity and worth,
Else Jessie had not died.

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At A Poet's Grave

© Francis Ledwidge

When I leave down this pipe my friend
And sleep with flowers I loved, apart,
My songs shall rise in wilding things
Whose roots are in my heart.

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71. Second Epistle to Davie

© Robert Burns

Haud to the Muse, my daintie Davie:
The warl’ may play you mony a shavie;
But for the Muse, she’ll never leave ye,
Tho’ e’er sae puir,
Na, even tho’ limpin wi’ the spavie
Frae door tae door.

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553. Song—O lay thy loof in mine, lass

© Robert Burns

Chorus—O lay thy loof in mine, lass,
In mine, lass, in mine, lass;
And swear on thy white hand, lass,
That thou wilt be my ain.

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Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman

© William Wordsworth

.  With an incident in which he was concerned

  In the sweet shire of Cardigan,

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500. Song—Craigieburn Wood (Second Version)

© Robert Burns

SWEET fa’s the eve on Craigieburn,
And blythe awakes the morrow;
But a’ the pride o’ Spring’s return
Can yield me nocht but sorrow.

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285. Song—I Gaed a Waefu’ Gate Yestreen

© Robert Burns

I GAED a waefu’ gate yestreen,
A gate, I fear, I’ll dearly rue;
I gat my death frae twa sweet een,
Twa lovely een o’bonie blue.

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Sonnet 25: The Wisest Scholar

© Sir Philip Sidney

The wisest scholar of the wight most wise
By Phoebus' doom, with sugar'd sentence says,
That Virtue, if it once met with our eyes,
Strange flames of love it in our souls would raise;

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536. Song—This is no my ain lassie

© Robert Burns

Chorus—This is no my ain lassie,
Fair tho, the lassie be;
Weel ken I my ain lassie,
Kind love is in her e’re.

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538. Song—Now Spring has clad the grove in green

© Robert Burns

NOW spring has clad the grove in green,
And strew’d the lea wi’ flowers;
The furrow’d, waving corn is seen
Rejoice in fostering showers.

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498. Song—For the sake o’ Somebody

© Robert Burns

MY heart is sair—I dare na tell,
My heart is sair for Somebody;
I could wake a winter night
For the sake o’ Somebody.

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Christmas, 1918

© Edgar Albert Guest

They give their all, this Christmastide, that peace on earth shall reign;
Upon the snows of Flanders now, brave blood has left its stain;
With ribbons red we deck our gifts; theirs bear the red of pain.

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237. Song—It is na, Jean, thy Bonie Face

© Robert Burns

IT is na, Jean, thy bonie face,
Nor shape that I admire;
Altho’ thy beauty and thy grace
Might weel awauk desire.

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We Must Believe

© James Whitcomb Riley

_"Lord, I believe: help Thou mine unbelief."_


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492. Dialogue Song—Philly and Willy

© Robert Burns

He. O PHILLY, happy be that day,
When roving thro’ the gather’d hay,
My youthfu’ heart was stown away,
And by thy charms, my Philly.

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Mrs. Katherine’s Lantern

© William Makepeace Thackeray

"Coming from a gloomy court,
Place of Israelite resort,
This old lamp I've brought with me.
Madam, on its panes you'll see
The initials K and E."