Love Poems – Page 2577

Ode for a Master Mariner Ashore

There in his room, whene’er the moon looks in,
And silvers now a shell, and now a fin,
And o’er his chart glides like an argosy, …

Louise Imogen Guiney English
In Leinster

I try to knead and spin, but my life is low the while.
Oh, I long to be alone, and walk abroad a mile;
Yet if I walk alone, and think of naught at all, …

Louise Imogen Guiney English
Pax Paganica

Good oars, for Arnold’s sake,
By Laleham lightly bound,
And near the bank, O soft, …

Louise Imogen Guiney English
On First Entering Westminster Abbey

Holy of England! since my light is short
And faint, O rather by the sun anew
Of timeless passion set my dial true, …

Louise Imogen Guiney English
Martyr's Memorial

Such natural debts of love our Oxford knows,
So many ancient dues undesecrate,
I marvel how the landmark of a hate …

Louise Imogen Guiney English
A Footnote to a Famous Lyric

True love’s own talisman, which here
Shakespeare and Sidney failed to teach,
A steel-and-velvet Cavalier …

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The Wild Ride

I hear in my heart, I hear in its ominous pulses,
All day, on the road, the hoofs of invisible horses;
All night, from their stalls, the importunate tramping and neighing. …

Louise Imogen Guiney English
Valse Jeune

Are favoring ladies above thee?
Are there dowries and lands? Do they say
Seven others are fair? But I love thee: …

Louise Imogen Guiney English
Of Joan's Youth

I would unto my fair restore
A simple thing:
The flushing cheek she had before! …

Louise Imogen Guiney English
Sanctuary

High above hate I dwell:
O storms! farewell.
Though at my sill your daggered thunders play, …

Louise Imogen Guiney English