Love Poems – Page 2655

To Her Absent Sailor

From “The Tent on the Beach”
HER window opens to the bay,
On glistening light or misty gray, …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
“I love my Jean”

Of a’ the airts 1 the wind can blaw,
I dearly like the west;
For there the bonnie lassie lives, …

Robert Burns English
Jeanie Morrison

I ’ve wandered east, I ’ve wandered west,
Through mony a weary way;
But never, never can forget …

William Motherwell English
“O, saw ye bonnie Leslie?”

O, Saw ye bonnie Leslie
As she gaed o’er the border?
She ’s gane, like Alexander, …

Robert Burns English
The Rustic Lad’s Lament in the Town

O, Wad that my time were owre but,
Wi’ this wintry sleet and snaw,
That I might see our house again, …

David Macbeth Moir English
Robin Adair

What ’s this dull town to me?
Robin ’s not near,—
He whom I wished to see, …

Lady Caroline Keppel English
Daisy

Where the thistle lifts a purple crown
Six foot out of the turf,
And the harebell shakes on the windy hill— …

Francis Thompson English
“What ails this heart o’ mine?”

What ails this heart o’ mine?
What ails this watery ee?
What gars me a’ turn pale as death …

Susanna Blamire English
Love’s Memory

From “All ’s Well That Ends Well,” Act I. Sc. 1.
I AM undone: there is no living, none,
If Bertram be away. It were all one, …

William Shakespeare English
Thinkin’ Long

Oh thinkin’ long ’s the weary work!
It breaks my heart from dawn
Till all the wee, wee, friendly stars …

Anna MacManus English