English Poems – Page 168

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• The Poet’s Song to His Wife

  How many summers, love,
  Have I been thine?
  How many days, thou dove, …

  Bryan Waller Procter

• “The day returns, my bosom burns”

  The Day returns, my bosom burns;
  The blissful day we twa did meet;
  Though winter wild in tempest toiled, …

  Robert Burns

• “She was a phantom of delight”

  She was a phantom of delight
  When first she gleamed upon my sight;
  A lovely apparition, sent …

  William Wordsworth

• My Heart is a Lute

  ALAS, that my heart is a lute,
  Whereon you have learned to play!
  For a many years it was mute, …

  Lady Blanche Elizabeth Fitzroy Lindsay

• Reunited Love

  “i Dreamed that we were lovers still,
  As tender as we used to be
  When I brought you the daffodil, …

  Richard Doddridge Blackmore

• A Woman’s Complaint

  I Know that deep within your heart of hearts
  You hold me shrined apart from common things,
  And that my step, my voice, can bring to you …

  Anonymous

• Love Lightens Labor

  A Good wife rose from her bed one morn,
  And thought, with a nervous dread,
  Of the piles of clothes to be washed, and more …

  Anonymous

• Connubial Life

  From “The Seasons: Spring”
  BUT happy they! the happiest of their kind!
  Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate …

  James Thomson

• The Retort

  Old Birch, who taught the village school,
  Wedded a maid of homespun habit;
  He was as stubborn as a mule, …

  George Pope Morris

• The Eggs and the Horses

  A Matrimonial Epic
  JOHN DOBBINS was so captivated
  By Mary Trueman’s fortune, face, and cap, …

  Anonymous

• Woman’s Will

  An Epigram
  MEN, dying, make their wills, but wives
  Escape a work so sad; …

  John Godfrey Saxe

• The Worn Wedding-Ring

  Your wedding-ring wears thin, dear wife; ah, summers not a few,
  Since I put it on your finger first, have passed o’er me and you;
  And, love, what changes we have seen,—what cares and pleasures, too,— …

  William Cox Bennett

• “If thou wert by my side, my love”

  Lines Written to His Wife, While on a Visit to Upper India
  IF thou wert by my side, my love!
  How fast would evening fail …

  Reginald Heber

• “There’s nae luck about the house”

  And are ye sure the news is true?
  And are ye sure he ’s weel?
  Is this a time to think of wark? …

  Jean Adam

• Dolcino to Margaret

  The World goes up and the world goes down,
  And the sunshine follows the rain;
  And yesterday’s sneer, and yesterday’s frown, …

  Charles Kingsley

• “O, lay thy hand in mine, dear!”

  O, Lay thy hand in mine, dear!
  We ’re growing old;
  But Time hath brought no sign, dear, …

  Gerald Massey

• Faith and Hope

  O, Don’t be sorrowful, darling!
  Now, don’t be sorrowful, pray;
  For, taking the year together, my dear, …

  Rembrandt Peale

• Darby and Joan

  Darby, dear, we are old and gray,
  Fifty years since our wedding day,
  Shadow and sun for every one …

  Frederic Edward Weatherly

• The Golden Wedding

  O Love, whose patient pilgrim feet
  Life’s longest path have trod,
  Whose ministry hath symbolled sweet …

  David Gray

• The Fire of Love

  From the “Examen Miscellaneum,” 1708
  THE FIRE of love in youthful blood,
  Like what is kindled in brushwood, …

  Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset

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