Love Poems – Page 2651

The Palm and the Pine

From the German by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
BENEATH an Indian palm a girl
Of other blood reposes; …

Heinrich Heine English
Cumnor Hall

[Said to have been the suggestive origin of Scott’s “Kenilworth”]
THE DEWS of summer night did fall;
The moon, sweet regent of the sky, …

William Julius Mickle English
Lady Ann Bothwell’s Lament

A Scottish Song
BALOW, my babe, ly stil and sleipe!
It grieves me sair to see thee weipe; …

Anonymous English
“My heid is like to rend, Willie”

My heid is like to rend, Willie,
My heart is like to break;
I ’m wearin’ aff my feet, Willie, …

William Motherwell English
A Woman’s Love

A Sentinel angel, sitting high in glory,
Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:
“Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story! …

John Hay English
“Has summer come without the rose?”

Has summer come without the rose,
Or left the bird behind?
Is the blue changed above thee, …

Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy English
The Dirty Old Man

A Lay of Leadenhall
[A singular man, named Nathaniel Bentley, for many years kept a large hardware-shop in Leadenhall Street, London. He was best know as Dirty Dick (Dick, for alliteration’s sake, probably), and his place of business as the Dirty Warehouse. He died about the year 1809. These vers…

William Allingham English
Home, Wounded

Wheel me into the sunshine,
Wheel me into the shadow,
There must be leaves on the woodbine, …

Sydney Dobell English
To Diane de Poitiers

From the French by Louise Stuart Costello
FAREWELL! since vain is all my care,
Far, in some desert rude, …

Clément Marot English
Woman’s Inconstancy

I Loved thee once, I ’ll love no more,
Thine be the grief as is the blame;
Thou art not what thou wast before, …

Sir Robert Ayton English