Love Poems – Page 2649

Reunited Love

“i Dreamed that we were lovers still,
As tender as we used to be
When I brought you the daffodil, …

Richard Doddridge Blackmore English
A Woman’s Complaint

I Know that deep within your heart of hearts
You hold me shrined apart from common things,
And that my step, my voice, can bring to you …

Anonymous English
Love Lightens Labor

A Good wife rose from her bed one morn,
And thought, with a nervous dread,
Of the piles of clothes to be washed, and more …

Anonymous English
Connubial Life

From “The Seasons: Spring”
BUT happy they! the happiest of their kind!
Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate …

James Thomson English
The Retort

Old Birch, who taught the village school,
Wedded a maid of homespun habit;
He was as stubborn as a mule, …

George Pope Morris English
The Eggs and the Horses

A Matrimonial Epic
JOHN DOBBINS was so captivated
By Mary Trueman’s fortune, face, and cap, …

Anonymous English
Woman’s Will

An Epigram
MEN, dying, make their wills, but wives
Escape a work so sad; …

John Godfrey Saxe English
The Worn Wedding-Ring

Your wedding-ring wears thin, dear wife; ah, summers not a few,
Since I put it on your finger first, have passed o’er me and you;
And, love, what changes we have seen,—what cares and pleasures, too,— …

William Cox Bennett English
“If thou wert by my side, my love”

Lines Written to His Wife, While on a Visit to Upper India
IF thou wert by my side, my love!
How fast would evening fail …

Reginald Heber English
“There’s nae luck about the house”

And are ye sure the news is true?
And are ye sure he ’s weel?
Is this a time to think of wark? …

Jean Adam English