Love Poems – Page 2627

Disdain Returned

He that loves a rosy cheek,
Or a coral lip admires,
Or from starlike eyes doth seek …

Thomas Carew English
To a Lady admiring Herself in a Looking-Glass

Fair lady, when you see the grace
Of beauty in your looking-glass;
A stately forehead, smooth and high, …

Thomas Randolph English
“Phillis is my only joy”

Phillis is my only joy
Faithless as the wind or seas;
Sometimes coming, sometimes coy, …

Sir Charles Sedley English
A Vision of Beauty

It was a beauty that I saw,—
So pure, so perfect, as the frame
Of all the universe were lame …

Ben Jonson English
To the Princess Lucretia

From London Magazine
THY unripe youth seemed like the purple rose
That to the warm ray opens not its breast, …

Torquato Tasso English
My Lady

From the Italian by Charles Eliot Norton
SO gentle and so gracious doth appear
My lady when she giveth her salute, …

Dante Alighieri English
Vision of a Fair Woman

From Elizabeth A. Sharp’s “Lyra Celtica”
TELL us some of the charms of the stars:
Close and well set were her ivory teeth; …

From the Ancient Erse English
The Girl of Cadiz

Oh, never talk again to me
Of northern climes and British ladies;
It has not been your lot to see …

Lord Byron English
“I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden”

I Fear thy kisses, gentle maiden;
Thou needest not fear mine;
My spirit is too deeply laden …

Percy Bysshe Shelley English
A Budget of Paradoxes

Child in thy beauty; empress in thy pride;
Sweet and unyielding as the summer’s tide;
Starlike to tremble, starlike to abide. …

John Martley English