Love Poems – Page 2818
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Mahmoud
There came a man, making his hasty moan / Before the Sultan Mahmoud on his throne, / And crying out, “My sorrow is my right, … -
Prince Adeb
In Sana, O, in Sana, God, the Lord, / Was very kind and merciful to me! / Forth from the Desert in my rags I came, … -
The Leper
“ROOM for the leper! room!” And as he came / The cry passed on,—“Room for the leper! room!”* * * * * / And aside they stood, … -
Erminia and the Wounded Tancred
From “Jerusalem Delivered” / From the Italian by Edward Fairfax / “THOUGH gone, though dead, I love thee still; behold … -
Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine
A Warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright, / Conversed as they sat on the green; / They gazed on each other with tender delight: … -
The Broken Pitcher
It was a Moorish maiden was sitting by a well, / And what that maiden thought of, I cannot, cannot tell, / When by there rode a valiant knight, from the town of Oviedo— … -
The Ballad of Guibour
From the Provençal by Harriet Waters Preston / From “Calendau” / AT Arles in the Carlovingian days, … -
The Glove and the Lions
King Francis was a hearty king, and loved a royal sport, / And one day, as his lions fought, sat looking on the court. / The nobles filled the benches, with the ladies in their pride, … -
The Glove
(Peter Ronsard loquitur) / “HEIGHO,” yawned one day King Francis, / “Distance all value enhances! … -
Louis XV.
The King with all his kingly train / Had left his Pompadour behind, / And forth he rode in Senart’s wood …
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