Love Poems – Page 2657

“Hence, all ye vain delights”

From “The Nice Valour,” Act III. Sc. 3.
HENCE, all ye vain delights,
As short as are the nights …

John Fletcher English
The Fall of Cardinal Wolsey

From “King Henry VIII.,” Act III. Sc. 2.
CROMWELL, I did not think to shed a tear
In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, …

William Shakespeare English
The Approach of Age

From “Tales of the Hall”
SIX years had passed, and forty ere the six,
When Time began to play his usual tricks: …

George Crabbe English
Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples

THE Sun is warm, the sky is clear,
The waves are dancing fast and bright,
Blue isles and snowy mountains wear …

Percy Bysshe Shelley English
Perished

Catskill Mountain House
WAVE after wave of greenness rolling down
From mountain top to base, a whispering sea …

Mary Louise Ritter English
Latest Verses

“On this day I completed my thirty-sixth year.“
—MISSOLONGHI, JANUARY 23, 1824.
’T IS time this heart should be unmoved, …

Lord Byron English
A Doubting Heart

Where are the swallows fled?
Frozen and dead
Perchance upon some bleak and stormy shore. …

Adelaide Anne Procter English
A Lament

O World! O Life! O Time!
On whose last steps I climb,
Trembling at that where I had stood before; …

Percy Bysshe Shelley English
“What can an old man do but die?”

SPRING it is cheery,
Winter is dreary,
Green leaves hang, but the brown must fly; …

Thomas Hood English
“Over the hill to the poor-house”

Over the hill to the poor-house I ’m trudgin’ my weary way—
I, a woman of seventy, and only a trifle gray—
I, who am smart an’ chipper, for all the years I ’ve told, …

Will Carleton English