Love Poems – Page 2816
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The Knight
From “Marmion,” Canto I. / DAY set on Norham’s castled steep, / And Tweed’s fair river, broad and deep, … -
“O, the pleasant days of old!”
O, The PLEASANT days of old, which so often people praise! / True, they wanted all the luxuries that grace our modern days: / Bare floors were strewed with rushes, the walls let in the cold; … -
Melrose Abbey
From “The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” Canto II. / IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, / Go visit it by the pale moonlight; … -
An Old Time Christmas
From “Marmion,” Introduction to Canto VI. / HEAP on more wood!—the wind is chill; / But, let it whistle as it will, … -
The Castle Ruins
A Happy day at Whitsuntide, / As soon ’s the zun begun to vall, / We all strolled up the steep hill-zide … -
The Deserted Village
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, / Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, / Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, … -
Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802
Earth has not anything to show more fair; / Dull would he be of soul who could pass by / A sight so touching in its majesty: … -
The Village Schoolmistress
From “The Schoolmistress” / AH me! full sorely is my heart forlorn, / To think how modest worth neglected lies, … -
The Forging of the Anchor
Come, see the Dolphin’s anchor forged; ’t is at a white heat now: / The bellows ceased, the flames decreased; though on the forge’s brow / The little flames still fitfully play through the sable mound: … -
Newport-Beach
Wave after wave successively rolls on / And dies along the shore, until more loud / One billow with concentrate force is heard …
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