Love Poems – Page 4042

Cleopatra

Here Charmian, take my bracelets:
They bar with a purple stain
My arms; turn over my pillows— …

William Wetmore Story English
Love

There are who say the lover’s heart
Is in the loved one’s merged;
O, never by love’s own warm art …

Thomas Kibble Hervey English
Stanzas

Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa
OH, talk not to me of a name great in story;
The days of our youth are the days of our glory, …

Lord Byron English
My Love

Not as all other women are
Is she that to my soul is dear;
Her glorious fancies come from far, …

James Russell Lowell English
The Bride

From “a Ballad upon a Wedding”
* * * * *THE MAID, and thereby hangs a tale,
For such a maid no Whitsun-ale …

Sir John Suckling English
Possession

“it was our wedding-day
A month ago,” dear heart, I hear you say.
If months, or years, or ages since have passed, …

Bayard Taylor English
Possession

A Poet loved a Star,
And to it whispered nightly,
“Being so fair, why art thou, love, so far? …

E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton English
“John Anderson, my jo”

John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven, …

Robert Burns English
“Waly, waly”

O Waly, waly, up the bank,
O waly, waly, doun the brae,
And waly, waly, yon burn-side, …

Anonymous English
Divided

I.
an Empty sky, a world of heather,
Purple of foxglove, yellow of broom: …

Jean Ingelow English