Love Poems – Page 2744
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Mother and Poet
Turin,—After News from Gaëta, 1861 / Laura Savio of Turin, a poetess and patriot, whose sons were killed at Ancona and Gaëta. / DEAD! one of them shot by the sea in the east, … -
Fair Helen
I Wish I were where Helen lies; / Night and day on me she cries; / O that I were where Helen lies … -
“Oh that ’t were possible”
From “Maud” / OH that ’t were possible, / After long grief and pain, … -
Too Late
“Dowglas, Dowglas, tendir and treu” / COULD ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas, / In the old likeness that I knew, … -
After Summer
We ’ll not weep for summer over,— / No, not we: / Strew above his head the clover,— … -
Lament for Heliodore
From the Greek by Andrew Lang / TEARS for my lady dead— / Heliodore! … -
On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I.
From the French by Louisa Stuart Costello / ’T IS done! a father, mother, gone, / A sister, brother, torn away, … -
To Mary in Heaven
[Written in September, 1789, on the anniversary of the day on which he heard of the death of his early love, Mary Campbell.] / THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, / That lov’st to greet the early morn, … -
Minstrel’s Song
O Sing unto my roundelay! / O, drop the briny tear with me! / Dance no more at holiday; … -
The Passage
From the German by Sarah Taylor Austin / MANY a year is in its grave / Since I crossed this restless wave: …
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