English Poems

Poems

• A charm invests a face

  A charm invests a face
  Imperfectly beheld.
  The lady dare not lift her veil …

  Emily Dickinson

• May

  The wind is tossing the lilacs,
  The new leaves laugh in the sun,
  And the petals fall on the orchard wall, …

  Sara Teasdale

• How Do I Love Thee

  How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
  I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
  My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight …

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Love and Death

  Shall we, too, rise forgetful from our sleep,
  And shall my soul that lies within your hand
  Remember nothing, as the blowing sand …

  Sara Teasdale

• I Am Not Yours

  I am not yours, not lost in you,
  Not lost, although I long to be
  Lost as a candle lit at noon, …

  Sara Teasdale

• I Love You

  When April bends above me
  And finds me fast asleep
  Dust need not keep the secret …

  Sara Teasdale

• I Thought of You

  I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
  And walking up the long beach all alone
  I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder …

  Sara Teasdale

• I Would Live in Your Love

  I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea,
  Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that
  recedes; …

  Sara Teasdale

• Sonnet 46

  Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
  How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
  Mine eye my heart thy picture’s sight would bar, …

  William Shakespeare

• Sonnet 73

  That time of year thou mayst in me behold
  When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
  Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, …

  William Shakespeare

• Sonnet 141

  In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,
  For they in thee a thousand errors note;
  But ’tis my heart that loves what they despise, …

  William Shakespeare

• Sonnet 153

  Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep:
  A maid of Dian’s this advantage found,
  And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep …

  William Shakespeare

• Song: To Celia

  Drink to me, only, with thine eyes,
  And I will pledge with mine;
  Or leave a kisse but in the cup, …

  Ben Jonson

• Still to be Neat

  Still to be neat, still to be drest,
  As you were going to a feast;
  Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd: …

  Ben Jonson

• The Hour-Glass

  Consider this small dust, here in the glass,
  By atoms moved:
  Could you believe that this the body was …

  Ben Jonson

• An Argument

  I've oft been told by learned friars,
  That wishing and the crime are one,
  And Heaven punishes desires …

  Thomas Moore

• Did Not

  'Twas a new feeling - something more
  Than we had dared to own before,
  Which then we hid not; …

  Thomas Moore

• Retort

  Thou art a fool," said my head to my heart,
  "Indeed, the greatest of fools thou art,
  To be led astray by trick of a tress, …

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

• If

  If life were but a dream, my Love,
  And death the waking time;
  If day had not a beam, my Love, …

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Life

  A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in,
  A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,
  A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, …

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

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