Love Poems – Page 3196

• The Symptom of the Gale —

  The Symptom of the Gale — / The Second of Dismay — / Between its Rumor and its Face — …

• The Symptoms of Love

  Would my Delia know if I love, let her take / My last thought at night, and the first when I wake; / With my prayers and best wishes preferr'd for her sake. …

• The Syrian Lover in Exile Remembers Thee, Light of my Land

  Rose and amber was the sunset on the river, / Red-rose the hills about Bingariz. / High upon their brows, the black tree-branches …

  by Ajan Syrian

• The Tables Turned

  Up! up, my friend! and quit your books, / Or surely you ’ll grow double; / Up! up, my friend! and clear your looks! …

  by William Wordsworth

• The Task (Cowper)/Book I — The Sofa

  I sing the Sofa. I, who lately sang / Truth, Hope, and Charity, and touch'd with awe / The solemn chords, and with a trembling hand, …

• The Task (Cowper)/Book II — The Time-Piece

  Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, / Some boundless contiguity of shade, / Where rumour of oppression and deceit, …

• The Task (Cowper)/Book III ─ The Garden

  As one who, long in thickets and in brakes / Entangled, winds now this way and now that / His devious course uncertain, seeking home; …

• The Task (Cowper)/Book IV ─ The Winter Evening

  Hark! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge, / That with its wearisome but needful length / Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon …

• The Task (Cowper)/Book V ─ The Winter Morning Walk

  'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb / Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, / That crowd away before the driving wind, …

• The Task (Cowper)/Book VI ─ The Winter Walk at Noon

  There is in souls a sympathy with sounds; / And, as the mind is pitch'd, the ear is pleas'd / With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave: …

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