Love Poems – Page 2652

Time’s Revenge

From the Greek by Robert Bland
SHE, who but late in beauty’s flower was seen,
Proud of her auburn curls and noble mien— …

Agathias English
“Alas! how light a cause”

From “The Light of the Harem”
ALAS! how light a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love! …

Thomas Moore English
Blighted Love

From the Portuguese by Lord Strangford
FLOWERS are fresh, and bushes green,
Cheerily the linnets sing; …

English
The Portrait

Midnight past! Not a sound of aught
Through the silent house, but the wind at his prayers.
I sat by the dying fire, and thought …

E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton English
Only a Woman

“She loves with love that cannot tire:
And if, ah, woe! she loves alone,
Through passionate duty love flames higher, …

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik English
Dorothy in the Garret

In the low-raftered garret, stooping
Carefully over the creaking boards,
Old Maid Dorothy goes a-groping …

John Townsend Trowbridge English
The Nun and Harp

What memory fired her pallid face,
What passion stirred her blood,
What tide of sorrow and desire …

Harriet Prescott Spofford English
Fidelity in Doubt

From the French by Harriet Waters Preston
COME, lady, to my song incline,
The last that shall assail thine ear. …

Guiraud Le Roux English
Parting

If thou dost bid thy friend farewell,
But for one night though that farewell may be,
Press thou his hand in thine. …

Coventry Patmore English
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars

Tell me not, sweet, I am unkinde,
That from the nunnerie
Of thy chaste breast and quiet minde, …

Richard Lovelace English