Love Poems – Page 3522
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To ---- VIII (Botta)
Thou dost not dwell in this dark world of ours, / Where sorrow, want, and crime, and misery reign; / Where famine stalks; where war's dread tempest lowers; … -
To ---- X (Botta)
Like the river's current rapid; / Like the lightning's flash intense; / Was the rushing, fiery torrent … -
To ----, in obscurity
In full-orbed splendor now the queen of Night, / Among the stars walks in her pride of place, / And how again we miss that flood of light … -
To ----, with flowers
Go, ye sweet messengers, / To that dim-lighted room, / Where lettered wisdom from the walls … -
To a Child (Botta)
I love to look on that eye of blue, / For tears have not yet worn a channel through; / And the few bright summers since thy birth, … -
To A Friend on the Choice Of A Wife
'TIS hard (experience long so taught the wise) / Not to provoke the person we advise. / Counsel, tho' ask'd, may very oft offend. … -
To a friend, on being asked for some verses
I thought the Soul of Song had made / This heart of mine her sepulchre; / For all her golden dreams had fled, … -
To a poet's wife
She, who in lonely pride may wear / The laurel on her brow, / And sit beneath its chilling shade, … -
To a poet, painter and musician
Three Muses one day / Had a serious fray, / Concerning a youth who had wandered astray, … -
To a Shred of Linen
WOULD they swept cleaner!— / Here's a littering shred / Of linen left behind—a vile reproach …
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