Love Poems – Page 2628

Love Dissembled

From “As You Like It,” Act III. Sc. 5.
THINK not I love him, though I ask for him;
’T is but a peevish boy:—yet he talks well;— …

William Shakespeare English
Her Likeness

A Girl, who has so many wilful ways
She would have caused Job’s patience to forsake him;
Yet is so rich in all that ’s girlhood’s praise, …

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik English
Verses written in an Album

Here is one leaf reserved for me,
From all thy sweet memorials free;
And here my simple song might tell …

Thomas Moore English
The White Rose

Sent by a Yorkish Lover to His Lancastrian Mistress
IF this fair rose offend thy sight,
Placed in thy bosom bare, …

Anonymous English
Song: “Ask me no more where Jove bestows”

Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June is past, the fading rose;
For in your beauty’s orient deep, …

Thomas Carew English
“Whenas in silks my Julia goes”

Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flowes
That liquefaction of her clothes. …

Robert Herrick English
“O, do not wanton with those eyes”

O, Do not wanton with those eyes,
Lest I be sick with seeing;
Nor cast them down, but let them rise, …

Ben Jonson English
Black and Blue Eyes

THE Brilliant black eye
May in triumph let fly
All its darts without caring who feels ’em; …

Thomas Moore English
Blue Eyes

Answer to a Sonnet Ending Thus—
“Dark eyes are dearer far
Than those that made the hyacinthine bell.” …

John Keats English
“O, saw ye the lass?”

O, Saw ye the lass wi’ the bonny blue een?
Her smile is the sweetest that ever was seen;
Her cheek like the rose is, but fresher, I ween; …

Richard Ryan English