Love Poems – Page 3518
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“The world is too much with us”
The world is too much with us; late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; / Little we see in nature that is ours; … -
Sneezing
What a moment, what a doubt! / All my nose is inside out,— / All my thrilling, tickling caustic, … -
Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight?
From “Hero and Leander” / It lies not in our power to love or hate, / For will in us is over-ruled by fate. … -
Dover Cliff
From “King Lear,” Act IV. Sc. 6. / COME on, sir; here ’s the place: stand still! / How fearful And dizzy ’t is, to cast one’s eyes so low! … -
The Poet’s Theme
From “Paradise Lost,” Book I. / Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste … -
Mannahatta
I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city, / Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name. / Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, … -
Twenty Years hence
Twenty years hence my eyes may grow, / If not quite dim, yet rather so; / Yet yours from others they shall know, … -
Oxus
From “Sohrab and Rustum” / But the majestic river floated on, / Out of the mist and hum of that low land, … -
Jessie
When Jessie comes with her soft breast, / And yields the golden keys, / Then is it as if God caress’d … -
Bereaved
Let me come in where you sit weeping,—ay, / Let me, who have not any child to die, / Weep with you for the little one whose love …
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