Love Poems – Page 3171

• The Red Bridge

  The arches of the red bridge / Are stronger than ever: / The arches of the scarlet bridge …

  by Skipwith Cannell

• The Reed

  Beneath the Memnonian shadows of Memphis, it rose from the slime, / A reed of the river, self-hid, as though shunning the curse of its crime, / And it shook as it measured in whispers the lapses of tide and of time. …

  by Henry Bernard Carpenter

• The Reformer

  All grim and soiled and brown and tan, / I saw a Strong One, in his wrath, / Smiting the godless shrines of man …

  by John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Relapse

  O TURN away those cruel eyes, / The stars of my undoing! / Or death, in such a bright disguise, …

  by Thomas Stanley

• The Relic (Donne)

  ⁠WHEN my grave is broke up again / ⁠Some second guest to entertain, / ⁠—For graves have learn'd that woman-head, …

• The Relief of Lucknow

  [September 25, 1857] / O, THAT last day in Lucknow fort! / We knew that it was the last; …

  by Robert Traill Spence Lowell

• The Religion of Hudibras

  From “Hudibras,” Part I. / HE was of that stubborn crew / Of errant saints, whom all men grant …

  by Samuel Butler

• The Republic

  From “The Building of the Ship” / THOU, too, sail on, O Ship of State! / Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! …

  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The Resignation

  O God, whose thunder shakes the sky, / Whose eye this atom globe surveys, / To thee, my only rock, I fly, …

  by Thomas Chatterton

• The Resolve

  Tell me not of a face that 's fair, / Nor lip and cheek that 's red, / Nor of the tresses of her hair, …

  by Alexander Brome

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