Love Poems – Page 4041

Love

All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love, …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge English
“Love me little, love me long”

Originally Printed in 1569
LOVE me little, love me long!
Is the burden of my song: …

Anonymous English
To Chloe

An Apology for Going into the Country
CHLOE, we must not always be in heaven,
Forever toying, ogling, kissing, billing; …

John Wolcot English
Constancy

One eve of beauty, when the sun
Was on the streams of Guadalquiver,
To gold converting, one by one, …

Anonymous English
A Renunciation

From Byrd’s “Songs and Sonnets,” 1588
IF women could be fair, and yet not fond,
Or that their love were firm, not fickle still, …

Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford English
“Why so pale and wan?”

Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
Pr’y thee, why so pale?
Will, when looking well can’t move her, …

Sir John Suckling English
Serenade

From “The Spanish Student”
STARS of the summer night!
Far in yon azure deeps, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
First Love

From “Don Juan,” Canto I.
’T IS sweet to hear,
At midnight on the blue and moonlit deep, …

Lord Byron English
The Welcome

Come in the evening, or come in the morning;
Come when you ’re looked for or come without warning;
Kisses and welcome you ’ll find here before you, …

Thomas Osborne Davis English
Last Night

From the Swedish by Théophile Julius Henry Marzials
LAST night the nightingale waked me,
Last night when all was still; …

Christian Winther English