Love Poems – Page 2685
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“Farewell! thou art too dear”
Sonnet Lxxxvii. / farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, / And like enough thou know’st thy estimate: … -
Kathleen Mavourneen
Kathleen Mavourneen! the gray dawn is breaking, / The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill; / The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking,— … -
“We parted in silence”
We parted in silence, we parted by night, / On the banks of that lonely river; / Where the fragrant limes their boughs unite, … -
“Farewell!—but whenever”
FAREWELL!—but whenever you welcome the hour / That awakens the night-song of mirth in your bower, / Then think of the friend that once welcomed it too, … -
Parting of Hector and Andromache
From the Greek by Alexander Pope / From “The Iliad,” Book VI. / “TOO daring prince! ah whither dost thou run? … -
Hector to His Wife
From the Greek by E. C. Hawtrey / From “The Iliad,” Book VI. / [The following extract is given as showing a more modern style of translation. It embraces the bracketed portion of the foregoing from Pope’s version.] … -
To Lucasta
IF to be absent were to be / Away from thee; / Or that, when I am gone, … -
To Her Absent Sailor
From “The Tent on the Beach” / HER window opens to the bay, / On glistening light or misty gray, … -
“I love my Jean”
Of a’ the airts 1 the wind can blaw, / I dearly like the west; / For there the bonnie lassie lives, … -
Jeanie Morrison
I ’ve wandered east, I ’ve wandered west, / Through mony a weary way; / But never, never can forget …
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