Love poems

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Togetherness

© Yusef Komunyakaa

Someone says Tristan 

& Isolde, the shared cup 

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Answered

© Madison Julius Cawein

Do you remember how that night drew on?

  That night of sorrow, when the stars looked wan

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No Classes!

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

No classes here! Why, that is idle talk.
 The village beau sneers at the country boor;
The importuning mendicants who walk
 Our cites’ streets despise the parish poor.

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A Poet! He Hath Put his Heart to School

© André Breton



 A poet!—He hath put his heart to school,

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Maria’s Return

© Thomas Love Peacock

  The whit’ning ground

  In frost is bound;

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Of Love To God

© John Bunyan

When I do this begin to apprehend,

My heart, my soul, and mind, begins to bend

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A Shropshire Lad XXXV: On the idle hill of summer

© Alfred Edward Housman

On the idle hill of summer,
 Sleepy with the flow of streams,
Far I hear the steady drummer
 Drumming like a noise in dreams.

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No More and No Less

© Mahmoud Darwish

I am a woman. No more and no less

I live my life as it is

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Drowned at Sea

© Henry Kendall

Gloomy cliffs, so worn and wasted with the washing of the waves,

Are ye not like giant tombstones round those lonely ocean graves?

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[Ladies, who of my lord would fain be told]

© Gaspara Stampa

Ladies, who of my lord would fain be told,

Picture a gentle knight, full sweet to see,

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Sonnet CXLI: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes

© William Shakespeare

In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,


For they in thee a thousand errors note;

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Song.—In early days

© Louisa Stuart Costello

In early days thy fondness taught
  My soul its endless love to know;
Thy image waked in every thought,
  Nor fear'd my tongue to tell thee so.

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Never Love Unless

© Thomas Campion

Never love unless you can
Bear with all the faults of man:
Men sometimes will jealous be
Though but little cause they see;
And hang the head, as discontent,
And speak what straight they will repent.

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The Rapture Of The Year

© James Whitcomb Riley

The ho! and hey! and whop-hooray!
Though winter clouds be looming,
Remember a November day
Is merrier than mildest May
With all her blossoms blooming.

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Art vs. Trade

© James Weldon Johnson

Trade, Trade versus Art,
Brain, Brain versus Heart;
Oh, the earthiness of these hard-hearted times, 
When clinking dollars, and jingling dimes, 
Drown all the finer music of the soul.

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When Lydia Smiles

© Madison Julius Cawein

Ah, me! what were this world to me
Without her smile!--What poetry,
  What glad hesperian paths I find
  Of love, that lead my soul and mind
To happy hills of Arcady,
  When Lydia smiles!

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The Good, Great Man

© Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 "How seldom, friend! a good great man inherits
 Honour or wealth with all his worth and pains!
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits
If any man obtain that which he merits
 Or any merit that which he obtains."

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Hymns to the Night : 5

© Novalis

In ancient times, over the widespread families of men an iron Fate ruled with dumb force. A gloomy oppression swathed their heavy souls - the earth was boundless - the abode of the gods and their home. From eternal ages stood its mysterious structure. Beyond the red hills of the morning, in the sacred bosom of the sea, dwelt the sun, the all-enkindling, living Light. An aged giant upbore the blissful world. Fast beneath mountains lay the first-born sons of mother Earth. Helpless in their destroying fury against the new, glorious race of gods, and their kindred, glad-hearted men. The ocean's dark green abyss was the lap of a goddess. In crystal grottos revelled a luxuriant folk. Rivers, trees, flowers, and beasts had human wits. Sweeter tasted the wine - poured out by Youth-abundance - a god in the grape-clusters - a loving, motherly goddess upgrew in the full golden sheaves - love's sacred inebriation was a sweet worship of the fairest of the god-ladies - Life rustled through the centuries like one spring-time, an ever-variegated festival of heaven-children and earth-dwellers. All races childlike adored the ethereal, thousand-fold flame as the one sublimest thing in the world. There was but one notion, a horrible dream-shape -


That fearsome to the merry tables strode,

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Myrtis

© Walter Savage Landor

Friends, whom she lookt at blandly from her couch

And her white wrist above it, gem-bedewed,