Love Poems – Page 64
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Ode to Simplicity
o THOU, by Nature taught / To breathe her genuine thought / In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong: … -
How sleep the Brave
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest / By all their country's wishes blest! / When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, … -
Ode to Evening
If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, / May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear, / Like thy own solemn springs, … -
Amoret
If rightly tuneful bards decide, / If it be fix'd in Love's decrees, / That Beauty ought not to be tried … -
The Complaint
away! away! / Tempt me no more, insidious Love: / Thy soothing sway … -
The Nightingale
To-night retired, the queen of heaven / With young Endymion stays; / And now to Hesper it is given … -
To Leven Water
Pure stream, in whose transparent wave / My youthful limbs I wont to lave; / No torrents stain thy limpid source, … -
Song to David
Sublime—invention ever young, / Of vast conception, tow'ring tongue / To God th' eternal theme; … -
A Lament for Flodden
I've heard them lilting at our ewe-milking, / Lasses a' lilting before dawn o' day; / But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning— … -
Woman
When lovely woman stoops to folly, / And finds too late that men betray, / What charm can soothe her melancholy? …
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