Love Poems – Page 2654

“Adieu, adieu! my native shore”

Adieu, adieu! my native shore
Fades o’er the waters blue;
The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, …

Lord Byron English
Farewell to his Wife

Fare thee well! and if forever,
Still forever, fare thee well;
Even though unforgiving, never …

Lord Byron English
“Come, let us kisse and parte”

Since there ’s no helpe,—come, let us kisse and parte,
Nay, I have done,—you get no more of me;
And I am glad,—yea, glad with all my hearte, …

Michael Drayton English
“Farewell! thou art too dear”

Sonnet Lxxxvii.
farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,
And like enough thou know’st thy estimate: …

William Shakespeare English
Kathleen Mavourneen

Kathleen Mavourneen! the gray dawn is breaking,
The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill;
The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking,— …

Louisa Macartney Crawford English
“We parted in silence”

We parted in silence, we parted by night,
On the banks of that lonely river;
Where the fragrant limes their boughs unite, …

Louisa Macartney Crawford English
“Farewell!—but whenever”

FAREWELL!—but whenever you welcome the hour
That awakens the night-song of mirth in your bower,
Then think of the friend that once welcomed it too, …

Thomas Moore English
Parting of Hector and Andromache

From the Greek by Alexander Pope
From “The Iliad,” Book VI.
“TOO daring prince! ah whither dost thou run? …

Homer English
Hector to His Wife

From the Greek by E. C. Hawtrey
From “The Iliad,” Book VI.
[The following extract is given as showing a more modern style of translation. It embraces the bracketed portion of the foregoing from Pope’s version.] …

Homer English
To Lucasta

IF to be absent were to be
Away from thee;
Or that, when I am gone, …

Richard Lovelace English