Love Poems – Page 2645

To Fidessa

From Fidessa
TONGUE! never cease to sing Fidessa’s praise;
Heart! howe’er she deserve, conceive the best; …

Bartholomew Griffin English
Charlie Machree

Come over, come over
The river to me,
If ye are my laddie, …

William J. Hoppin English
Hope Deferred

His hand at last! By his own fingers writ,
I catch my name upon the wayworn sheet:
His hand—oh, reach it to me quick! And yet, …

Anonymous English
The Old Maid

She gave her life to love. She never knew
What other women give their all to gain.
Others were fickle. She was passing true. …

George Barlow English
The Loveliness of Love

It is not Beauty I demand,
A crystal brow, the moon’s despair,
Nor the snow’s daughter, a white hand, …

George Darley English
An Old Sweetheart of Mine

As one who cons at evening o’er an album all alone,
And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known,
So I turn the leaves of fancy, till in shadowy design …

James Whitcomb Riley English
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”

Sonnet Cxvi.
let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love, …

William Shakespeare English
Sonnets from the PortugueseVI. Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand

Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore
Alone upon the threshold of my door …

Elizabeth Barrett Browning English
Sonnets from the PortugueseXIV. If thou must love me, let it be for naught

If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love’s sake only. Do not say
“I love her for her smile … her look … her way …

Elizabeth Barrett Browning English
Sonnets from the PortugueseXVIII. I never gave a lock of hair away

I Never gave a lock of hair away
To a man, Dearest, except this to thee,
Which now upon my fingers thoughtfully …

Elizabeth Barrett Browning English