Love Poems – Page 4043

“Take, O, take those lips away”

TAKE, 1 O, take those lips away,
That so sweetly were forsworn;
And those eyes, like break of day, …

William Shakespeare English
The Dream

Our life is twofold; sleep hath its own world,
A boundary between the things misnamed
Death and existence: sleep hath its own world, …

Lord Byron English
Faith

Better trust all and be deceived,
And weep that trust and that deceiving,
Than doubt one heart that, if believed, …

Frances Anne Kemble English
Absence

What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers …

Frances Anne Kemble English
Absence

When I think on the happy days
I spent wi’ you, my dearie;
And now what lands between us lie, …

Anonymous English
Man

In his own image the Creator made,
His own pure sunbeam quickened thee, O man!
Thou breathing dial! since the day began …

Walter Savage Landor English
The World

The World ’s a bubble, and the Life of Man
Less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the womb, …

Francis Bacon English
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind”

From “As You Like It,” Act II. Sc. 7.
BLOW, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind …

William Shakespeare English
The Last Leaf

From the Russian by John Pollen
Ya Perezhil Svoï Zhelanya
I ’VE overlived aspirings, …

Alexander Pushkin English
“Times go by turns”

The Lopped tree in time may grow again;
Most naked plants renew both fruit and flower;
The sorest wight may find release of pain, …

Robert Southwell English