Love poems

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Sonnet 105: Unhappy Sight

© Sir Philip Sidney

Unhappy sight, and hath she vanish'd by
So near, in so good time, so free a place?
Dead glass, dost thou thy object so embrace,
As what my heart still sees thou canst not spy?

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Anne Hathaway's Cottage

© Mathilde Blind

IS this the Cottage, ivy-girt and crowned,

  And this the path down which our Shakespeare ran,

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A Hero's Grave

© Sydney Thompson Dobell


Why should I weep? The grass is grass, the weeds
Are weeds. The emmet hath done thus ere now.
I tear a leaf; the green blood that it bleeds
Is cold. What have I here? Where, where, art thou,
My son, my son?

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Is Life Worth Living?

© Alfred Austin

Is life worth living? Yes, so long

As Spring revives the year,

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The Revellers

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Ring, joyous chords!-ring out again!

A swifter still, and a wilder strain!

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Envy

© Adelaide Anne Procter

He was the first always: Fortune
  Shone bright in his face.
I fought for years; with no effort
  He conquered the place:
We ran; my feet were all beeding,
  But he won the race.

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Drought by Felecia Caton Garcia: American Life in Poetry #111 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-20

© Ted Kooser

As poet Felecia Caton Garcia of New Mexico shows us in this moving poem, there are times when parents feel helpless and hopeless. But the human heart is remarkable and, like a dry creek bed, somehow fills again, is renewed and restored. Drought

Try to remember: things go wrong in spite of it all.
I listen to our daughters singing in the crackling rows
of corn and wonder why I don't love them more.
They move like dark birds, small mouths open

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Adultery

© James Dickey

We have all been in rooms
We cannot die in, and they are odd places, and sad.
Often Indians are standing eagle-armed on hills

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I Was Again Beside Thee In A Dream

© Mathilde Blind

I was again beside thee in a dream:
  Earth was so beautiful, the moon was shining;
The muffled voice of many a cataract stream
  Came like a love-song, as, with arms entwining,
Our hearts were mixed in unison supreme.

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With A Seashell

© James Russell Lowell

Shell, whose lips, than mine more cold,

Might with Dian's ear make bold,

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The Better Day

© Archibald Lampman

Harsh thoughts, blind angers, and fierce hands,
  That keep this restless world at strife,
Mean passions that, like choking sands,
  Perplex the stream of life,

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Girl's Love

© Lesbia Harford

I lie in the dark
Grass beneath and you above me,
Curved like the sky,
Insistent that you love me.

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A Lover's Sigh

© Anacreon

The Phrygian rock that braves the storm

  Was once a weeping matron's form;

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By The Seaside : The Evening Star

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lo! in the painted oriel of the West,

  Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines,

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Garden Magic

© Bliss William Carman

WITHIN my stone-walled garden
(I see her standing now,
Uplifted in the twilight,
With glory on her brow!)

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Songs Set To Music: 15. Set By Mr. De Fesch

© Matthew Prior

Farewell, Amynta, we must part;
The charm has lost its power
Which held so fast my captived heart
Until this fatal hour.

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The Voices Of The Death Chamber

© Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

The night lamp is faintly gleaming

  Within my chamber still,

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The Clear Vision

© John Greenleaf Whittier

I did but dream. I never knew

What charms our sternest season wore.

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In Salem Dwelt a Glorious King

© Thomas Traherne

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In Salem dwelt a glorious King,

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Thoughts On Death (From The Swedish Of C. Lohman)

© George Borrow

Perhaps ‘t is folly, but still I feel
My heart-strings quiver, my senses reel,
Thinking how like a fast stream we range
Nearer and nearer to yon dread change,
When soul and spirit filter away,
And leave nothing better than senseless clay.