Love Poems – Page 4039

Constancy

Out upon it. I have loved
Three whole days together;
And am like to love three more, …

Sir John Suckling English
Spring

From the Greek by Andrew Lang
NOW the bright crocus flames, and now
The slim narcissus takes the rain, …

Meleager of Gadara English
Song

From the German by Edgar Taylor
WHEN from the sod the flowerets spring,
And smile to meet the sun’s bright ray, …

Walther von der Vogelweide English
“She walks in beauty”

“Hebrew Melodies”
SHE walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies, …

Lord Byron English
“She is not fair to outward view”

She is not fair to outward view,
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew …

Hartley Coleridge English
“Go, lovely rose”

GO, lovely rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows, …

Edmund Waller English
To a Lady

On Her Art of Growing Old Gracefully
YOU ask a verse, to sing (ah, laughing face!)
Your happy art of growing old with grace? …

John James Piatt English
Love

From “The Merchant of Venice,” Act III. Sc. 2.
TELL me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart, or in the head? …

William Shakespeare English
“Love is a sickness”

Love is a sickness full of woes,
All remedies refusing;
A plant that most with cutting grows, …

Samuel Daniel English
Love

From “Hero and Leander”
IT lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is over-ruled by fate. …

Christopher Marlowe English