Love poems
/ page 581 of 1285 /380. SongSaw ye Bonie Lesley
© Robert Burns
O SAW ye bonie Lesley,
As she gaed oer the Border?
Shes gane, like Alexander,
To spread her conquests farther.
428. SongPhillis 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.
262. Delia: An Ode
© Robert Burns
FAIR the face of orient day,
Fair the tints of opning rose;
But fairer still my Delia dawns,
More lovely far her beauty shows.
72. SongYoung 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.
552. Complimentary versicles to Jessie Lewars
© Robert Burns
JESSIES ILLNESSSay, sages, whats the charm on earth
Can turn Deaths dart aside!
It is not purity and worth,
Else Jessie had not died.
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.
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, shell never leave ye,
Tho eer sae puir,
Na, even tho limpin wi the spavie
Frae door tae door.
553. SongO lay thy loof in mine, lass
© Robert Burns
ChorusO 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.
Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman
© William Wordsworth
. With an incident in which he was concerned
In the sweet shire of Cardigan,
500. SongCraigieburn Wood (Second Version)
© Robert Burns
SWEET fas the eve on Craigieburn,
And blythe awakes the morrow;
But a the pride o Springs return
Can yield me nocht but sorrow.
285. SongI Gaed a Waefu Gate Yestreen
© Robert Burns
I GAED a waefu gate yestreen,
A gate, I fear, Ill dearly rue;
I gat my death frae twa sweet een,
Twa lovely een obonie blue.
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;
536. SongThis is no my ain lassie
© Robert Burns
ChorusThis is no my ain lassie,
Fair tho, the lassie be;
Weel ken I my ain lassie,
Kind love is in her ere.
538. SongNow Spring has clad the grove in green
© Robert Burns
NOW spring has clad the grove in green,
And strewd the lea wi flowers;
The furrowd, waving corn is seen
Rejoice in fostering showers.
498. SongFor the sake o Somebody
© Robert Burns
MY heart is sairI dare na tell,
My heart is sair for Somebody;
I could wake a winter night
For the sake o Somebody.
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.
237. SongIt 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.
492. Dialogue SongPhilly and Willy
© Robert Burns
He. O PHILLY, happy be that day,
When roving thro the gatherd hay,
My youthfu heart was stown away,
And by thy charms, my Philly.
Mrs. Katherines 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."