Love Poems – Page 2664

“She died in beauty”

She died in beauty,—like a rose
Blown from its parent stem;
She died in beauty,—like a pearl …

Charles Doyne Sillery English
The Death of Minnehaha

From “The Song of Hiawatha”
ALL day long roved Hiawatha
In that melancholy forest, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
Mother and Poet

Turin,—After News from Gaëta, 1861
Laura Savio of Turin, a poetess and patriot, whose sons were killed at Ancona and Gaëta.
DEAD! one of them shot by the sea in the east, …

Elizabeth Barrett Browning English
Fair Helen

I Wish I were where Helen lies;
Night and day on me she cries;
O that I were where Helen lies …

Anonymous English
“Oh that ’t were possible”

From “Maud”
OH that ’t were possible,
After long grief and pain, …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
Too Late

“Dowglas, Dowglas, tendir and treu”
COULD ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas,
In the old likeness that I knew, …

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik English
After Summer

We ’ll not weep for summer over,—
No, not we:
Strew above his head the clover,— …

Philip Bourke Marston English
Lament for Heliodore

From the Greek by Andrew Lang
TEARS for my lady dead—
Heliodore! …

Meleager of Gadara English
On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I.

From the French by Louisa Stuart Costello
’T IS done! a father, mother, gone,
A sister, brother, torn away, …

Marguerite de Valois English
To Mary in Heaven

[Written in September, 1789, on the anniversary of the day on which he heard of the death of his early love, Mary Campbell.]
THOU lingering star, with lessening ray,
That lov’st to greet the early morn, …

Robert Burns English