Love Poems – Page 2626

The Mahogany-Tree

Christmas is here;
Winds whistle shrill,
Icy and chill, …

William Makepeace Thackeray English
The Ballad of Bouillabaisse

A Street there is in Paris famous,
For which no rhyme our language yields,
Rue Neuve des Petits Champs its name is— …

William Makepeace Thackeray English
The Dead Poet-Friend

From the Greek by W. Cory
THEY told me, Heracleitus, they told me you were dead;
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. …

Callimachus English
To Seek a Friend

Extracts from “Friendship”
WHAT virtue, or what mental grace,
But men unqualified and base …

William Cowper English
Advice

Modernized by H. Macaulay Fitzgibbon
IF ye would love and lovèd be,
In mind keep well these thingis three, …

William Dunbar English
The Friend

From “On Friendship”
OF all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend,
What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? …

Nicholas Grimald English
“Take the world as it is”

Take the world as it is!—there are good and bad in it,
And good and bad will be from now to the end;
And they, who expect to make saints in a minute, …

Charles Swain English
“Eros is missing”

From the Greek by Charles Whibley
EROS is missing. In the early morn
Forth from his bed the rascal took his flight. …

Meleager of Gadara English
A Violet in her Hair

A Violet in her lovely hair,
A rose upon her bosom fair!
But O, her eyes …

Charles Swain English
Rosalynd

Like to the clear in highest sphere
Where all imperial glory shines:
Of selfsame color is her hair, …

Thomas Lodge English