Love poems
/ page 582 of 1285 /494. SongFarewell thou stream that winding flows
© Robert Burns
FAREWELL, thou stream that winding flows
Around Elizas dwelling;
O memry! spare the cruel thoes
Within my bosom swelling.
The Monks Of Basle
© John Hay
I tore this weed from the rank, dark soil
Where it grew in the monkish time,
I trimmed it close and set it again
In a border of modern rhyme.
469. SongCa the Yowes to the Knowes
© Robert Burns
Chorus.Cathe yowes to the knowes,
Ca them where the heather grows,
Ca them where the burnie rowes,
My bonie Dearie.
396. SongWandering Willie
© Robert Burns
HERE awa, there awa, wandering Willie,
Now tired with wandering, haud awa hame;
Come to my bosom, my ae only dearie,
And tell me thou bringst me my Willie the same.
326. SongThe Posie
© Robert Burns
O LUVE will venture in where it daur na weel be seen,
O luve will venture in where wisdom ance has been;
But I will doun yon river rove, amang the wood sae green,
And a to pu a Posie to my ain dear May.
206. SongClarina, Mistress of my Soul
© Robert Burns
CLARINDA, mistres of my soul,
The measurd time is run!
The wretch beneath the dreary pole
So marks his latest sun.
534. SongFragmentWhy tell the lover
© Robert Burns
WHY, why tell thy lover
Bliss he never must enjoy?
Why, why undeceive him,
And give all his hopes the lie?
Ode IV: To The Honourable Charles Townshend In The Country
© Mark Akenside
I. 1.
How oft shall i survey
The Fountain
© William Cullen Bryant
Fountain, that springest on this grassy slope,
Thy quick cool murmur mingles pleasantly,
Blossom Of Life.
© Arthur Henry Adams
SO now she lies silent and sweet
With white flowers at her head and feet,
And she, the fairest flower, between.
The bud that with her bosom's swell
Love Declared
© Francis Thompson
I looked, she drooped, and neither spake, and cold,
We stood, how unlike all forecasted thought
249. Sappho Redivivus: A Fragment
© Robert Burns
BY all I lovd, neglected and forgot,
No friendly face eer lights my squalid cot;
Shunnd, hated, wrongd, unpitied, unredrest,
The mockd quotation of the scorners jest!
397. SongWandering Willie (Revised Version)
© Robert Burns
HERE awa, there awa, wandering Willie,
Here awa, there awa, haud awa hame;
Come to my bosom, my ain only dearie,
Tell me thou bringst me my Willie the same.
The Beauteous Terrorist
© Sir Henry Parkes
Soft as the morning's pearly light,
Where yet may rise the thunder-cloud,
Her gentle face was ever bright
With noble thought and purpose proud.
369. SongMy Collier Laddie
© Robert Burns
WHARE live ye, my bonie lass?
And tell me what they ca ye;
My name, she says, is mistress Jean,
And I follow the Collier laddie.
My name, she says, &c.
56. Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet
© Robert Burns
WHILE winds frae aff Ben-Lomond blaw,
An bar the doors wi driving snaw,
An hing us owre the ingle,
I set me down to pass the time,
557. SongFairest Maid on Devons Banks
© Robert Burns
ChorusFairest maid on Devon banks,
Crystal Devon, winding Devon,
Wilt thou lay that frown aside,
And smile as thou wert wont to do?
The Pang More Sharp Than All. An Allegory
© Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I.
He too has flitted from his secret nest,
Hope's last and dearest child without a name!--
Has flitted from me, like the warmthless flame,