Love Poems – Page 2640

The Author’s Resolution, in a Sonnet

From “Fair Virtue”
SHALL I, wasting in despair,
Die, because a woman ’s Fair? …

George Wither English
Answer to Master Wither’s Song, “Shall I, Wasting in Despair”

[Wither’s Song, or “Sonnet,” appeared first in his “Fidelia” in 1615, and later with some changes in “Fair Virtue,” 1622. Jonson’s parody, here given, came out in a Collection of Verses, in 1620.]
SHALL I mine affections slack,
’Cause I see a woman’s Black? …

Ben Jonson English
Forever Unconfessed

They seemed to those who saw them meet
The worldly friends of every day,
Her smile was undisturbed and sweet, …

Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton English
Advice to a Girl

Never love unless you can
Bear with all the faults of man!
Men sometimes will jealous be …

Thomas Campion English
Waiting for the Grapes

That I love thee, charming maid, I a thousand times have said,
And a thousand times more I have sworn it,
But ’t is easy to be seen in the coldness of your mien …

William Maginn English
“Give me more love or more disdain”

Give me more love or more disdain;
The torrid or the frozen zone
Brings equal ease unto my pain; …

Thomas Carew English
Affaire d’Amour

For E. W. W.
ONE pale November day
Flying Summer paused, …

Margaret Deland English
A Woman’s Question

Before I trust my fate to thee,
Or place my hand in thine,
Before I let thy future give …

Adelaide Anne Procter English
“Not at all, or all in all”

From “Merlin and Vivien”
IN Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours,
Faith and unfaith can ne’er be equal powers; …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
“When do I see thee most?”

From “The House of Life”
WHEN do I see thee most, belovèd one?
When in the light the spirits of mine eyes …

Dante Gabriel Rossetti English