Love Poems (19819 Poems)
Homage To Sextus Propertius – VII (Ezra Pound Poems)
Me happy, night, night full of brightness;Oh couch made happy by iny long delectations;How many words talked out with abundant candles;Struggles when the lights were taken away;Now with bared breasts she wrestled against me,Tunic spread in delay;And she then opening … Continue reading
Sweet Florida (Annie McCarer Darlington Poems)
Beautiful Florida! land of the flowers,Home of the mocking bird, saucy and bold,Sweet are the roses that perfume thy bowers,And brilliant thy sunshine like burnished gold. Soft are thy rivulets, gentle thy water-falls,Rippling so merrily toward the broad sea;Fringed with … Continue reading
The Aged Cottagers (Christian Milne Poems)
A THOUSAND joys has happy Age,When Youth has left no sting;A conscience sound makes life’s last stageGlide smooth on lighter wing.‘Twas eve, and aged JOHN and JEAN Sat by their cottage door,Who wedded fifty years had been,Blest with content, tho’ … Continue reading
Confession (Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky Poems)
False tenderness from me do not demand,I shan’t conceal my heart’s sad chill.You’re right, the lovely flameOf my first love, has disappeared.And when in vain I turn my thoughtsTo your dear face and our old dreams:My memories are lifeless.I gave … Continue reading
May Morning (Edmund William Gosse Poems)
BREAK, long wave, below my feet! Wind and meet, Sea-streams that the moon hath shaken! From the shingle white and bare, All the air With sonorous cadence waken! From the distance dim and bright, Gulphed in light, To the long … Continue reading
Ask, and Ye Shall Receive (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
WHAT shall we ask? A Father hears,Who weighs our blessings, counts our tears,And when for bread we pray,We leave it to His Sovereign willWith wine or gall the cup to fill,That steeps it day by day.Ask we for Faith, and … Continue reading
To Laura At The Harpsichord (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
When o’er the chords thy fingers stray,My spirit leaves its mortal clay, A statue there I stand;Thy spell controls e’en life and death,As when the nerves a living breath Receive by Love’s command! [1] More gently zephyr sighs alongTo listen … Continue reading
Martin Lightfoot’s Song (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Come hearken, hearken, gentles all,Come hearken unto me,And I’ll sing you a song of a Wood-LyonCame swimming out over the sea. He ranged west, he ranged east,And far and wide ranged he;He took his bite out of every beastLives under … Continue reading
Love The Arbitrator (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
I am thy servant, Love, and bear thy sign, Which is to suffer; would, O Love, that thou To my … Continue reading
The Thraldom (Abraham Cowley Poems)
I came, I saw, and was undone;Lightning did through my bones and marrow run; A pointed pain pierc’d deep my heart;A swift cold trembling seiz’d on every part; My head turn’d round, nor could it bear … Continue reading