Love Poems – Page 4236

Ave Imperatrix

Set in this stormy Northern sea,
Queen of these restless fields of tide,
England! what shall men say of thee, …

Rudyard Kipling
The Bait

COME live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, …

John Donne English
A Ballad of Trees and the Master

Into the woods my Master went,
Clean forspent, forspent.
Into the woods my Master came, …

Sidney Lanier English
A Bard's Epitaph

A Bard's Epitaph
1786
Is there a whim-inspired fool, …

Robert Burns English
Ben Bolt

Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?
Sweet Alice whose hair was so brown,
Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile …

Thomas Dunn English
The Diverting History of John Gilpin

John Gilpin was a citizen
Of credit and renown,
A train-band captain eke was he, …

William Cowper English
The Dying Christian to his Soul

VITAL spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, O quit this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, …

Alexander Pope English
The Ecstasy

WHERE, like a pillow on a bed,
⁠A pregnant bank swell'd up, to rest
The violet's reclining head, …

Abraham Cowley English
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

WHAT beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
'Tis she!—but why that bleeding bosom gored, …

Alexander Pope
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

The next with dirges due in sad array
Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him born.
Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, …

Thomas Gray English