Love Poems – Page 2625

• Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson

  HE ’s gane, he ’s gane! he ’s frae us torn,
  The ae best fellow e’er was born!
  Thee, Matthew, Nature’s sel’ shall mourn …

  Robert Burns English

• “And doth not a meeting like this”

  And doth not a meeting like this make amends
  For all the long years I ’ve been wand’ring away—
  To see thus around me my youth’s early friends, …

  Thomas Moore English

• We Love but Few

  Oh, yes, we mean all kind words that we say
  To old friends and to new;
  Yet doth this truth grow clearer day by day: …

  Anonymous English

• A Temple to Friendship

  “a Temple to Friendship,” cried Laura, enchanted,
  “I ’ll build in this garden; the thought is divine.”
  So the temple was built, and she now only wanted …

  Thomas Moore English

• Platonic

  I Had sworn to be a bachelor, she had sworn to be a maid,
  For we quite agreed in doubting whether matrimony paid;
  Besides, we had our higher loves,—fair science ruled my heart, …

  William B. Terrett English

• The Boys

  From “Poems of the Class of ’Twenty-nine”
  [Harvard]
  HAS there any old fellow got mixed with the boys? …

  Oliver Wendell Holmes English

• The Cane-Bottomed Chair

  In tattered old slippers that toast at the bars,
  And a ragged old jacket perfumed with cigars,
  Away from the world and its toils and its cares, …

  William Makepeace Thackeray English

• The Welcome

  From the Persian by Edward Fitzgerald
  ONE night Shah Mahmúd, who had been of late
  Somewhat distempered with Affairs of State, …

  Faríd-Uddín Attar English

• Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius

  From “Julius Cæsar,” Act IV. Sc. 3.
  Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS.
  CASSIUS.—That you have wronged me doth appear in this: …

  William Shakespeare English

• “Wreathe the bowl”

  WREATHE the bowl
  With flowers of soul,
  The brightest wit can find us; …

  Thomas Moore English

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