Love Poems – Page 4059

• Cleopatra

  From “Antony and Cleopatra,” Act II. Sc. 2.
  ENOBARBUS.—The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
  Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold; …

  William Shakespeare English

• The Bells of Shandon

  Sabbata pango;
  Funera plango;
  Solemnia clango. …

  Francis Sylvester Mahony English

• Carillon

  In the ancient town of Bruges,
  In the quaint old Flemish city,
  As the evening shades descended, …

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English

• Venice

  From “Italy”
  THERE is a glorious City in the Sea.
  The Sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, …

  Samuel Rogers English

• Venice

  From “View from the Euganean Hills”
  ALL is bright and clear and still
  Round the solitary hill. …

  Percy Bysshe Shelley English

• England

  From “The Traveller”
  FIRED at the sound, my genius spreads her wing,
  And flies where Britain courts the western spring; …

  Oliver Goldsmith English

• London

  Athwart the sky a lowly sigh
  From west to east the sweet wind carried;
  The sun stood still on Primrose Hill; …

  John Davidson English

• The Baron’s Last Banquet

  O’er a low couch the setting sun
  Had thrown its latest ray,
  Where in his last strong agony …

  Albert G. Greene English

• England

  From “King John,” Act V. Sc. 7.
  THIS England never did, nor never shall,
  Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,* * * * * …

  William Shakespeare English

• Ireland

  they are dying! they are dying! where the golden corn is growing;
  They are dying! they are dying! where the crowded herds are lowing:
  They are gasping for existence where the streams of life are flowing, …

  Denis Florence Mac Carthy English

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