Love Poems – Page 2630

The Shepherd and the King

Ah! what is love? It is a pretty thing,
As sweet unto a shepherd as a king,
And sweeter too; …

Robert Greene English
Love and Woman

From “Love’s Labor ’s Lost,” Act IV. Sc. 3.
KING.—But what of this? are we not all in love?
BIRON.—Nothing so sure; and thereby all forsworn. …

William Shakespeare English
“Ah, how sweet”

From “Tyrannic Love,” Act IV. Sc. 1.
AH, how sweet it is to love!
Ah, how gay is young desire! …

John Dryden English
“Welcome, welcome, do I sing”

Welcome, welcome, do I sing,
Far more welcome than the spring;
He that parteth from you never …

William Browne English
Song: “Love still has something”

Love still has something of the sea,
From whence his Mother rose;
No time his slaves from love can free, …

Sir Charles Sedley English
“If it be true that any beauteous thing”

From the Italian by John Edward Taylor
IF it be true that any beauteous thing
Raises the pure and just desire of man …

Michaelangelo English
Sonnet: “Muses, that sing Love’s sensual empirie”

Muses, that sing Love’s sensual empirie,
And lovers kindling your enragèd fires
At Cupid’s bonfires burning in the eye, …

George Chapman English
Love’s Silence

Because I breathe not love to everie one,
Nor do not use set colors for to weare,
Nor nourish special locks of vowèd haire, …

Sir Philip Sidney English
When Will Love Come?

Some find Love late, some find him soon,
Some with the rose in May,
Some with the nightingale in June, …

Pakenham Beatty English
The Annoyer

Love knoweth every form of air,
And every shape of earth,
And comes, unbidden, everywhere, …

Nathaniel Parker Willis English