Love Poems – Page 2656

• “Tears, idle tears”

  From “The Princess”
  TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
  Tears from the depth of some divine despair …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson English

• “Come to me, dearest”

  Come to me, dearest, I ’m lonely without thee,
  Daytime and night-time, I ’m thinking about thee;
  Night-time and daytime, in dreams I behold thee; …

  Joseph Brenan English

• The Wife to her Husband

  Linger not long. Home is not home without thee:
  Its dearest tokens do but make me mourn.
  O, let its memory, like a chain about thee, …

  Anonymous English

• My Old Kentucky Home

  Negro Song
  THE SUN shines bright on our old Kentucky home;
  ’T is summer, the darkeys are gay; …

  Stephen Collins Foster English

• The Present Good

  From “The Task,” Book VI.
  NOT to understand a treasure’s worth
  Till time has stol’n away the slighted good, …

  William Cowper English

• “Moan, moan, ye dying gales”

  Moan, moan, ye dying gales!
  The saddest of your tales
  Is not so sad as life; …

  Henry Neele English

• The Vanity of the World

  False world, thou ly’st: thou canst not lend
  The least delight:
  Thy favors cannot gain a friend, …

  Francis Quarles English

• The Wail of Prometheus Bound

  From the Greek by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  From “Prometheus”
  O HOLY Æther, and swift-winged Winds, …

  Æschylus English

• Samson on His Blindness

  From “Samson Agonistes”
  O LOSS of sight, of thee I must complain!
  Blind among enemies, O, worse than chains, …

  John Milton English

• Lines: “My prime of youth is but a frost of cares”

  [Written in the Tower, the night before his probably unjust execution for treason]
  MY prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
  My feast of joy is but a dish of pain, …

  Chidiock Tichborne English

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