Love Poems – Page 2633

Song: “It is the miller’s daughter”

From “The Miller’s Daughter”
IT is the miller’s daughter,
And she is grown so dear, so dear, …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
“If doughty deeds my lady please”

If doughty deeds my lady please,
Right soon I ’ll mount my steed,
And strong his arm and fast his seat …

Robert Graham of Gartmore English
An Opal

A Rose of fire shut in a veil of snow,
An April gleam athwart a misted sky:
A jewel—a soul! gaze deep if thou wouldst know …

Ednah Proctor (Clarke) Hayes English
Cupid and Campaspe

From “Alexander and Campaspe,” Act III. Sc. 5.
CUPID and my Campaspe played
At cards for kisses,—Cupid paid; …

John Lyly English
Kisses

My love and I for kisses played:
She would keep stakes—I was content;
But when I won, she would be paid; …

William Strode English
Kissing ’s no Sin

Some say that kissing ’s a sin;
But I think it ’s nane ava,
For kissing has wonn’d in this warld …

Anonymous English
Song of the Milkmaid

From “Queen Mary”
SHAME upon you, Robin,
Shame upon you now! …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
“Comin’ through the rye”

Adapted
GIN a body meet a body
Comin’ through the rye, …

Robert Burns English
“O whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad”

O Whistle, and I ’ll come to you, my lad,
O whistle, and I ’ll come to you, my lad,
Tho’ father and mither and a’ should gae mad, …

Robert Burns English
Sonnet upon a Stolen Kiss

Now gentle sleep hath closèd up those eyes
Which, waking, kept my boldest thoughts in awe;
And free access unto that sweet lip lies, …

George Wither English