Love Poems – Page 2634

• Sly Thoughts

  “i Saw him kiss your cheek!”—“’T is true.”
  “O Modesty!”—“’T was strictly kept:
  He thought me asleep; at least, I knew …

  Coventry Patmore English

• The Whistle

  “you have heard,” said a youth to his sweetheart, who stood,
  While he sat on a corn-sheaf, at daylight’s decline,—
  “You have heard of the Danish boy’s whistle of wood? …

  Robert Story English

• “Behave yoursel’ before folk”

  BEHAVE yoursel’ before folk,
  Behave yoursel’ before folk,
  And dinna be sae rude to me, …

  Alexander Rodger English

• “Smile and never heed me”

  Though, when other maids stand by,
  I may deign thee no reply,
  Turn not then away, and sigh,— …

  Charles Swain English

• “The dule ’s i’ this bonnet o’ mine”

  Lancashire Dialect
  THE DULE ’S i’ this bonnet o’ mine:
  My ribbins ’ll never be reet; …

  Edwin Waugh English

• A Spinster’s Stint

  Six skeins and three, six skeins and three!
  Good mother, so you stinted me,
  And here they be,—ay, six and three! …

  Alice Cary English

• The Telltale

  Once, on a golden afternoon,
  With radiant faces and hearts in tune,
  Two fond lovers in dreaming mood …

  Elizabeth Akers Allen English

• The Chess-Board

  My little love, do you remember,
  Ere we were grown so sadly wise,
  Those evenings in the bleak December, …

  E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton English

• Her Letter

  I ’m sitting alone by the fire,
  Dressed just as I came from the dance,
  In a robe even you would admire,— …

  Bret Harte English

• The Plaidie

  Upon ane stormy Sunday,
  Coming adoon the lane,
  Were a score of bonnie lassies— …

  Charles Sibley English

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