Love Poems – Page 2680

Connubial Life

From “The Seasons: Spring”
BUT happy they! the happiest of their kind!
Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate …

James Thomson English
The Retort

Old Birch, who taught the village school,
Wedded a maid of homespun habit;
He was as stubborn as a mule, …

George Pope Morris English
The Eggs and the Horses

A Matrimonial Epic
JOHN DOBBINS was so captivated
By Mary Trueman’s fortune, face, and cap, …

Anonymous English
Woman’s Will

An Epigram
MEN, dying, make their wills, but wives
Escape a work so sad; …

John Godfrey Saxe English
The Worn Wedding-Ring

Your wedding-ring wears thin, dear wife; ah, summers not a few,
Since I put it on your finger first, have passed o’er me and you;
And, love, what changes we have seen,—what cares and pleasures, too,— …

William Cox Bennett English
“If thou wert by my side, my love”

Lines Written to His Wife, While on a Visit to Upper India
IF thou wert by my side, my love!
How fast would evening fail …

Reginald Heber English
“There’s nae luck about the house”

And are ye sure the news is true?
And are ye sure he ’s weel?
Is this a time to think of wark? …

Jean Adam English
Dolcino to Margaret

The World goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday’s sneer, and yesterday’s frown, …

Charles Kingsley English
“O, lay thy hand in mine, dear!”

O, Lay thy hand in mine, dear!
We ’re growing old;
But Time hath brought no sign, dear, …

Gerald Massey English
Faith and Hope

O, Don’t be sorrowful, darling!
Now, don’t be sorrowful, pray;
For, taking the year together, my dear, …

Rembrandt Peale English