Love Poems – Page 2665

Minstrel’s Song

O Sing unto my roundelay!
O, drop the briny tear with me!
Dance no more at holiday; …

Thomas Chatterton English
The Passage

From the German by Sarah Taylor Austin
MANY a year is in its grave
Since I crossed this restless wave: …

Ludwig Uhland English
“Home they brought her warrior dead”

From “The Princess”
HOME they brought her warrior dead:
She nor swooned, nor uttered cry; …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
The King of Denmark’s Ride

Word was brought to the Danish king
(Hurry!)
That the love of his heart lay suffering, …

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah English
Selections from “In Memoriam”

[Arthur Henry Hallam, Ob. 1833]
Grief Unspeakable
V. …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
“The fairest thing in mortal eyes”

From the French by Henry Francis Cary
Addressed to his deceased wife, who died in childbed at the age of twenty-two
TO make my lady’s obsequies …

Charles, Duke of Orléans English
“Break, break, break”

Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
Lavender

How prone we are to hide and hoard
Each little treasure time has stored,
To tell of happy hours! …

Anonymous English
What of the Darkness?

To the Happy Dead People
WHAT of the darkness? Is it very fair?
Are there great calms? and find we silence there? …

Richard Le Gallienne English
Van Elsen

God spake three times and saved Van Elsen’s soul;
He spake by sickness first and made him whole;
Van Elsen heard him not, …

Frederick George Scott English