Love Poems – Page 2681

Darby and Joan

Darby, dear, we are old and gray,
Fifty years since our wedding day,
Shadow and sun for every one …

Frederic Edward Weatherly English
The Golden Wedding

O Love, whose patient pilgrim feet
Life’s longest path have trod,
Whose ministry hath symbolled sweet …

David Gray English
The Fire of Love

From the “Examen Miscellaneum,” 1708
THE FIRE of love in youthful blood,
Like what is kindled in brushwood, …

Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset English
“Not ours the vows”

Not ours the vows of such as plight
Their troth in sunny weather,
While leaves are green and skies are bright, …

Bernard Barton English
Laodamia

“with sacrifice, before the rising morn,
Vows have I made by fruitless hope inspired;
And from th’ infernal gods, ’mid shades forlorn …

William Wordsworth English
“Till death us part”

“TILL death us part,”
Thus speaks the heart
When each to each repeats the words of doom; …

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley English
The Old Man Dreams

O For one hour of youthful joy!
Give back my twentieth spring!
I ’d rather laugh a bright-haired boy …

Oliver Wendell Holmes English
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