Love Poems – Page 2681
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Darby and Joan
Darby, dear, we are old and gray, / Fifty years since our wedding day, / Shadow and sun for every one … -
The Golden Wedding
O Love, whose patient pilgrim feet / Life’s longest path have trod, / Whose ministry hath symbolled sweet … -
The Fire of Love
From the “Examen Miscellaneum,” 1708 / THE FIRE of love in youthful blood, / Like what is kindled in brushwood, … -
“Not ours the vows”
Not ours the vows of such as plight / Their troth in sunny weather, / While leaves are green and skies are bright, … -
Laodamia
“with sacrifice, before the rising morn, / Vows have I made by fruitless hope inspired; / And from th’ infernal gods, ’mid shades forlorn … -
“Till death us part”
“TILL death us part,” / Thus speaks the heart / When each to each repeats the words of doom; … -
The Old Man Dreams
O For one hour of youthful joy! / Give back my twentieth spring! / I ’d rather laugh a bright-haired boy … -
The Palm and the Pine
From the German by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton / BENEATH an Indian palm a girl / Of other blood reposes; … -
Cumnor Hall
[Said to have been the suggestive origin of Scott’s “Kenilworth”] / THE DEWS of summer night did fall; / The moon, sweet regent of the sky, … -
Lady Ann Bothwell’s Lament
A Scottish Song / BALOW, my babe, ly stil and sleipe! / It grieves me sair to see thee weipe; …
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