Love Poems – Page 4063

Auld Robin Gray

When the sheep are in the fauld and the kye a’ at hame,
When a’ the weary world to sleep are gane,
The waes o’ my heart fa’ in showers frae my e’e, …

Lady Anne Lindsay English
Daybreak

The Lark now leaves his watery nest,
And climbing shakes his dewy wings,
He takes your window for the east, …

Sir William Davenant English
The Portrait

Give place, ye ladies, and begone,
Boast not yourselves at all:
For here at hand approacheth one …

Thomas Heywood English
To His Mistress

Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia
YOU meaner beauties of the night,
That poorly satisfy our eyes …

Sir Henry Wotton English
Olivia

From “Twelfth Night,” Act I. Sc. 5.
VIOLA.—’T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature’s own sweet and cunning hand laid on: …

William Shakespeare English
Sunrise

As on my bed at dawn I mused and prayed,
I saw my lattice prankt upon the wall,
The flaunting leaves and flitting birds withal— …

Charles Tennyson Turner English
Nature

The Bubbling brook doth leap when I come by,
Because my feet find measure with its call;
The birds know when the friend they love is nigh, …

Jones Very English
Napoleon

From “Childe Harold,” Canto III.
THERE sunk the greatest, nor the worst of men,
Whose spirit antithetically mixed …

Lord Byron English
George Washington

By broad Potomac’s silent shore
Better than Trajan lowly lies,
Gilding her green declivities …

Anonymous English
Abraham Lincoln

Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865 1
YOU lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln’s bier,
You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, …

Tom Taylor English