Love Poems – Page 2618

To My Grandmother

Suggested by a Picture by Mr. Romney
THIS relative of mine,
Was she seventy-and-nine …

Frederick Locker-Lampson English
Maidenhood

Maiden! with the meek brown eyes,
In whose orbs a shadow lies
Like the dusk in evening skies! …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
To a Highland Girl

At Inversnaid, upon Loch Lomond
SWEET Highland Girl, a very shower
Of beauty is thy earthly dower! …

William Wordsworth English
The Pretty Girl of Loch Dan

The Shades of eve had crossed the glen
That frowns o’er infant Avonmore,
When, nigh Loch Dan, two weary men, …

Samuel Ferguson English
Lying in the Grass

Between two golden tufts of summer grass,
I see the world through hot air as through glass,
And by my face sweet lights and colors pass. …

Edmund Gosse English
To the Virgins

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a flying;
And this same flower that smiles to-day …

Robert Herrick English
Lauriger Horatius

Translated by John Addington Symonds
LAUREL-CROWNED Horatius,
True, how true thy saying! …

From the Medieval Latin English
The “Old, Old Song”

When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad, …

Charles Kingsley English
Gaudeamus Igitur

Translated by John Addington Symonds
LET us live, then, and be glad
While young life ’s before us! …

From the Medieval Latin English
To Thaliarchus

From the Latin by Sir Stephen Edward de Vere
A SPECTRAL form Soracte stands, snow-crowned,
His shrouded pines beneath their burden bending; …

Horace English