Love Poems – Page 2647

Brutus and Portia

From “Julius Cæsar,” Act II. Sc. 1.
Enter PORTIA.
PORTIA.— Brutus, my lord! …

William Shakespeare English
Lord Walter’s Wife

“but why do you go?” said the lady, while both sate under the yew,
And her eyes were alive in their depth, as the kraken beneath the sea-blue.
“Because I fear you,” he answered;—“because you are far too fair, …

Elizabeth Barrett Browning English
Paulina’s Appeal

From the French of W. F. Nokes
From “Polyeucte”
SEVERUS— I stand agaze, …

Pierre Corneille English
The Wife of Loki

Cursed by the gods and crowned with shame,
Fell father of a direful brood,
Whose crimes have filled the heaven with flame …

Lady Charlotte Elliot English
“Like a laverock in the lift”

It ’s we two, it ’s we two for aye,
All the world, and we two, and Heaven be our stay!
Like a laverock 1 in the lift, 2 sing, O bonny bride! …

Jean Ingelow English
“Were I but his own wife”

Were I but his own wife, to guard and to guide him,
’T is little of sorrow should fall on my dear;
I ’d chant my low love-verses, stealing beside him, …

Ellen Mary Downing English
Two Lovers

Two lovers by a moss-grown spring:
They leaned soft cheeks together there,
Mingled the dark and sunny hair, …

George Eliot English
In Twos

Somewhere in the world there hide
Garden-gates that no one sees
Save they come in happy twos,— …

William Channing Gannett English
Hebrew Wedding

From “The Fall of Jerusalem”
TO the sound of timbrels sweet
Moving slow our solemn feet, …

Henry Hart Milman English
The Wedding-Day

From “Epithalamion”
* * * * *NOW is my love all ready forth to come:
Let all the virgins therefore well awayt: …

Edmund Spenser English