Love Poems – Page 2516
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On a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, / That crowned the watery glade, / Where grateful Science still adores … -
On a Fan
That Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour / (Ballade) / CHICKEN-SKIN, delicate, white, … -
On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in aTub of Gold Fishes
Twas on a lofty vase's side, / Where China's gayest art had dyed / The azure flowers that blow; … -
On a Ferry Boat
The river widens to a pathless sea / Beneath the rain and mist and sullen skies. / Look out the window; ’t is a gray emprise, … -
On a Fly drinking out of his Cup
Busy, curious, thirsty fly! / Drink with me and drink as I: / Freely welcome to my cup, … -
On a Girdle
That which her slender waist confined / Shall now my joyful temples bind; / No monarch but would give his crown … -
On a Goldfinch Starved to Death in his Cage
TIME was when I was free as air, / The thistle's downy seed my fare, / My drink the morning dew; … -
On a Grave at Grindelwald
Here let us leave him; for his shroud the snow, / For funeral-lamps he has the planets seven, / For a great sign the icy stair shall go … -
On a Grave in Christ-Church, Hants
Turning from Shelley’s sculptured face aside, / And pacing thoughtfully the silent aisles / Of the gray church that overlooks the smiles … -
On a great coxcomb
(recovering from an Indisposition) / Narcissus (as Ovid informs us) expir'd, / Consum'd by the flames his own beauty had fir'd; …
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