Love Poems – Page 2683
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The Portrait
Midnight past! Not a sound of aught / Through the silent house, but the wind at his prayers. / I sat by the dying fire, and thought … -
Only a Woman
“She loves with love that cannot tire: / And if, ah, woe! she loves alone, / Through passionate duty love flames higher, … -
Dorothy in the Garret
In the low-raftered garret, stooping / Carefully over the creaking boards, / Old Maid Dorothy goes a-groping … -
The Nun and Harp
What memory fired her pallid face, / What passion stirred her blood, / What tide of sorrow and desire … -
Fidelity in Doubt
From the French by Harriet Waters Preston / COME, lady, to my song incline, / The last that shall assail thine ear. … -
Parting
If thou dost bid thy friend farewell, / But for one night though that farewell may be, / Press thou his hand in thine. … -
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars
Tell me not, sweet, I am unkinde, / That from the nunnerie / Of thy chaste breast and quiet minde, … -
Good-bye
“farewell! farewell!” is often heard / From the lips of those who part: / ’T is a whispered tone,—’t is a gentle word, … -
“Ae fond kiss, and then we sever”
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; / Ae fareweel, alas, forever! / Deep in heart-wrung tears I ’ll pledge thee; … -
“O, my Luve ’s like a red, red rose”
O, My Luve ’s like a red, red rose / That ’s newly sprung in June: / O, my Luve ’s like the melodie …
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