Love Poems – Page 2632

“Greene grow the rashes O”

Green grow the rashes O,
Green grow the rashes O;
The sweetest hours that e’er I spend …

Robert Burns English
Perfume

What gift for passionate lovers shall we find?
Not flowers nor books of verse suffice for me,
Nor splinters of the odorous cedar-tree, …

Sir Edmund William Gosse English
Kate Temple’s Song

Only a touch, and nothing more:
Ah! but never so touched before!
Touch of lip, was it? Touch of hand? …

Sir James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk English
The First Kiss

How delicious is the winning
Of a kiss at love’s beginning,
When two mutual hearts are sighing …

Thomas Campbell English
Athulf and Ethilda

ATHULF.— Appeared
The princess with that merry child Prince Guy:
He loves me well, and made her stop and sit, …

Sir Henry Taylor English
“Blest as the immortal gods”

From the Greek by Ambrose Phillips
BLEST as the immortal gods is he,
The youth who fondly sits by thee, …

Sappho English
“I dreamt I saw great Venus”

From the Greek by Leigh Hunt
I DREAMT I saw great Venus by me stand,
Leading a nodding infant by the hand; …

Bion of Smyrna English
Francesca Da Rimini

From the Italian by Lord Byron
From the “Divina Commedia: Inferno”
AND then I turned unto their side my eyes, …

Dante Alighieri English
“Dinna ask me”

O, Dinna ask me gin I lo’e ye:
Troth, I daurna tell!
Dinna ask me gin I lo’e ye,— …

John Dunlop English
“O Swallow, Swallow, flying South”

From “The Princess”
O SWALLOW, Swallow, flying, flying South,
Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English