Love Poems – Page 2631

Three Loves

There were three maidens who loved a king;
They sat together beside the sea;
One cried, “I love him, and I would die …

Lucy Hamilton Jones Hooper English
“Love scorns degrees”

From “The Mountain of the Lovers”
LOVE scorns degrees; the low he lifteth high,
The high he draweth down to that fair plain …

Paul Hamilton Hayne English
Philomela’s Ode

That She Sung in Her Arbor
SITTING by a river’s side
Where a silent stream did glide, …

Robert Greene English
A Fiction

Attributed to “A. W.”
How Cupid Made a Nymph Wound Herself with His Arrow
IT chanced of late a shepherd’s swain, …

Anonymous English
Wishes for the Supposed Mistress

Whoe’er she be,
That not impossible She
That shall command my heart and me: …

Richard Crashaw English
A Match

If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together …

Algernon Charles Swinburne English
My Choice

Shall I tell you whom I love?
Hearken then awhile to me;
And if such a woman move …

William Browne English
A Maiden’s Ideal of a Husband

From “The Contrivances”
GENTEEL in personage,
Conduct, and equipage, …

Henry Carey English
Rosalynd’s Complaint

Love in my bosom, like a bee,
Doth suck his sweet;
Now with his wings he plays with me. …

Thomas Lodge English
Cupid Swallowed

Paraphrase from the Greek
T’ OTHER day, as I was twining
Roses for a crown to dine in, …

Leigh Hunt English