Love poems

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Evangeline: Part The Second. IV.

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

FAR in the West there lies a desert land, where the mountains

Lift, through perpetual snows, their lofty and luminous summits.

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The Summer Pool

© William Cosmo Monkhouse

THERE is a singing in the summer air,  

The blue and brown moths flutter o’er the grass,  

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V: Song: To Celia

© Benjamin Jonson

Come my Celia, let us prove,

While wee may, the sports of love;

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Ode To Despair

© Charlotte Turner Smith

FROM THE NOVEL OF EMMELINE.
THOU spectre of terrific mien!
Lord of the hopeless heart and hollow eye,
In whose fierce train each form is seen

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An Epithalamium

© Sappho

Raise high the beams of the raftered hall,

(Sing the Hymen-refrain!)

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Birthday Lines For K.B.

© Joseph Furphy

Life is a Poem, short or long,
A dismal Dirge, or jovial Song,
A Psalm of faith, or Lay of Pride,
One stanza by each year supplied.

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They Who Tread the Path of Labor

© Henry Van Dyke

They who tread the path of labor follow where My feet have trod;
They who work without complaining, do the holy will of God;
Nevermore thou needest seek me; I am with thee everywhere;
Raise the stone, and thou shalt find Me, clease the wood and I am there.

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Three Women

© Sylvia Plath

A Poem for Three Voices

Setting:  A Maternity Ward and round about

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The King of Canoodle-Dum

© William Schwenck Gilbert

The story of FREDERICK GOWLER,

A mariner of the sea,

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We Are Made One with What We Touch and See

© Oscar Wilde

We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each springimpassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.

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A Dittie

© John Lyly

Behold her lockes like wiers of beaten gold,
her eyes like starres that twinkle in the skie,
Her heavenly face not framd of earthly molde,
Her voice that sounds Apollos melodie,
The miracle of time, the [whole] worlds storie,
Fortunes Queen, Loves treasure, Natures glory.

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The Course Of Life

© Friedrich Hölderlin

  You too wanted better things, but love
  forces all of us down.  Sorrow bends us more
  forcefully, but the arc doesn't return to its
  point of origin without a reason.

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Concerning Resolution

© Thomas Parnell

Happy the man whose firm resolves obtain

Assisting Grace to burst his sinfull chain

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Leda

© Muriel Stuart

Do you remember, Leda?

There are those who love, to whom Love brings

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Les Bijoux (The Jewels)

© Charles Baudelaire

La très chère était nue, et, connaissant mon coeur,
Elle n'avait gardé que ses bijoux sonores,
Dont le riche attirail lui donnait l'air vainqueur
Qu'ont dans leurs jours heureux les esclaves des Mores.

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And If You Came—

© Margaret Widdemer

AND if you came?– Oh, I would smile
  And sit quite still to hide
My throat that something clutched the while,
  My heart that struck my side.

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Among The Narcissi

© Sylvia Plath

Spry, wry, and gray as these March sticks,
Percy bows, in his blue peajacket, among the narcissi.
He is recuperating from something on the lung.

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Summer Dawn

© Christopher Pearse Cranch

SOME summer mornings — when you've taken tea
Too late the night before — perhaps you'll see,
If at some Berkshire farmhouse far away
You chance to wake while yet the sky is gray,

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A Canadian Snow Fall

© Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

Come to the casement, we’ll watch the snow
Softly descending on earth below,
Fairer and whiter than spotless down
Or the pearls that gleam in a monarch’s crown,
Clothing the earth in its robe’s bright flow;
Is it not lovely—the pure white snow?

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Her Dream

© William Butler Yeats

I dreamed as in my bed I lay,

All night's fathomless wisdom come,