Love Poems – Page 2629

My Sweetheart’s Face

My kingdom is my sweetheart’s face,
And these the boundaries I trace:
Northward her forehead fair; …

John Allan Wyeth English
Her Guitar

By the fire that loves to tint her
Cheeks the color of a rose,
While the wanton winds of winter …

Frank Dempster Sherman English
“O, fairest of rural maids!”

O, Fairest of the rural maids!
Thy birth was in the forest shades;
Green boughs, and glimpses of the sky, …

William Cullen Bryant English
The Milking-Maid

The Year stood at its equinox,
And bluff the North was blowing,
A bleat of lambs came from the flocks, …

Christina Georgina Rossetti English
Lovely Mary Donnelly

O Lovely Mary Donnelly, it ’s you I love the best!
If fifty girls were round you, I ’d hardly see the rest.
Be what it may the time of day, the place be where it will, …

William Allingham English
The Irish Spinning-Wheel

SHOW me a sight,
Bates for delight
An ould Irish wheel wid a young Irish girl at it. …

Alfred Perceval Graves English
The Low-Backed Car

When first I saw sweet Peggy,
’T was on a market day:
A low-backed car she drove, and sat …

Samuel Lover English
A Gage D’Amour

“Martiis cælebs quid agam Kalendis,
——— miraris?”
—Horace iii. 8. …

Austin Dobson English
An Experience and a Moral

I Lent my love a book one day;
She brought it back; I laid it by:
’T was little either had to say,— …

Frederick Swartwout Cozzens English
At the Church-Gate

Although I enter not,
Yet round about the spot
Ofttimes I hover; …

William Makepeace Thackeray English