Love Poems – Page 2643

Lady Clare

It was the time when lilies blow,
And clouds are highest up in air,
Lord Ronald brought a lily-white doe …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
Curfew must Not Ring To-night

Slowly England’s sun was setting o’er the hilltops far away,
Filling all the land with beauty at the close of one sad day,
And the last rays kissed the forehead of a man and maiden fair,— …

Rose Hartwick Thorpe English
The Sleeping Beauty

From “The Day Dream”
YEAR after year unto her feet,
She lying on her couch alone, …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
The Eve of St. Agnes

Saint Agnes’ EVE,—ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;
The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, …

John Keats English
“So sweet love seemed”

So sweet love seemed that April morn,
When first we kissed beside the thorn,
So strangely sweet, it was not strange …

Robert Bridges English
Echoes

How sweet the answer Echo makes
To Music at night
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes, …

Thomas Moore English
Love’s Young Dream

From “Irish Melodies”
O THE DAYS are gone when beauty bright
My heart’s chain wove! …

Thomas Moore English
“The might of one fair face”

From the Italian by John Edward Taylor
THE MIGHT of one fair face sublimes my love,
For it hath weaned my heart from low desires; …

Michaelangelo English
“My true-love hath my heart”

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange one to the other given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, …

Sir Philip Sidney English
“Were I as base as is the lowly plain”

Were I as base as is the lowly plain,
And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,
Yet should the thoughts of me your humble swain …

Joshua Sylvester English