Love Poems – Page 2663

Jim’s Kids

Jim was a fisherman, up on the hill,
Over the beach lived he and his wife,
In a little house—you can see it still— …

Eugene Field English
The May Queen

You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;
To-morrow ’ll be the happiest time of all the glad new-year,—
Of all the glad new-year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
On Anne Allen

The Wind blew keenly from the Western sea,
And drove the dead leaves slanting from the tree—
Vanity of vanities, the Preacher saith— …

Edward Fitzgerald English
Sonnet: “Yea, Love is strong as life”

(Suggested by Mr. Watts’s Picture of Love and Death)
YEA, Love is strong as life; he casts out fear,
And wrath, and hate, and all our envious foes; …

Lady Blanche Elizabeth Fitzroy Lindsay English
Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur

Anonymous translation from the French
THE BIER descends, the spotless roses too,
The father’s tribute in his saddest hour: …

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand English
Coronach

From “The Lady of the Lake,” Canto III.
HE is gone on the mountain,
He is lost to the forest, …

Sir Walter Scott English
Evelyn Hope

Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead!
Sit and watch by her side an hour.
That is her book-shelf, this her bed; …

Robert Browning English
“Thy braes were bonny”

Thy braes were bonny, Yarrow stream!
When first on them I met my lover;
Thy braes how dreary, Yarrow stream! …

John Logan English
“Farewell to thee, Araby’s daughter”

From “The Fire-Worshippers”
FAREWELL,—farewell to thee, Araby’s daughter!
(Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea;) …

Thomas Moore English
“Softly woo away her breath”

Softly woo away her breath,
Gentle death!
Let her leave thee with no strife, …

Bryan Waller Procter English