Love Poems – Page 2638

• “I prithee send me back my heart”

  I Prithee send me back my heart,
  Since I cannot have thine;
  For if from yours you will not part, …

  Sir John Suckling English

• The Courtin’

  God makes sech nights, all white an’ still
  Fur ’z you can look or listen;
  Moonshine an’ snow on field an’ hill, …

  James Russell Lowell English

• Popping Corn

  AND 1 there they sat, a-popping corn,
  John Styles and Susan Cutter—
  John Styles as fat as any ox, …

  Anonymous English

• The Friar of Orders Gray

  Adapted from old ballads
  IT was a friar of orders gray
  Walked forth to tell his beads; …

  Thomas Percy English

• The Hermit

  From “The Vicar of Wakefield”
  “TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale,
  And guide my lonely way …

  Oliver Goldsmith English

• The Laird o’ Cockpen

  The Laird o’ Cockpen he ’s proud and he ’s great,
  His mind is ta’en up with the things o’ the state;
  He wanted a wife his braw house to keep, …

  Carolina, Lady Nairne English

• Othello’s Defence

  From “Othello,” Act I. Sc. 3.
  OTHELLO.—Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,
  My very noble and approved good masters,— …

  William Shakespeare English

• The Earl o’ Quarterdeck

  A New Old Ballad
  THE WIND it blew, and the ship it flew;
  And it was “Hey for hame! …

  George MacDonald English

• Aux Italiens

  At Paris it was, at the opera there;
  And she looked like a queen in a book that night,
  With the wreath of pearl in her raven hair, …

  E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton English

• “Let not woman e’er complain”

  Let not woman e’er complain
  Of inconstancy in love;
  Let not woman e’er complain …

  Robert Burns English

Page 2638 of 4,196