A Slice of Life by Edgar Guest
The tender breezes till the day be spent;
Only the fool chokes out life’s sentiment.
She is a prize too lovely to forsake . . .
Come Live With Me and Be My Love by Christopher Marlowe
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
She Walks in Beauty Like the Night by Lord Byron
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that ‘s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe.
I and my Annabel Lee–
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
Young Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott
Have ye e’er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?
As I Walked Out One Evening by WH Auden
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street.
If Thou Must Love Me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Sonnet 116: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare.
Oh, My Luve’s Like a Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns.
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun!
O I will luve thee still, my Dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.
How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Birthday by Christina Rossetti.
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.
Come live with me and be my love
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands and crystal brooks,
With silken lines and silver hooks.
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”
~Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Linda at TeacherDance has this week’s Poetry Friday Roundup.
Loved this collection of love poems!
Wow, lots of love wrapped up in your post. If you’re right, & probably are, I think I have the Shakespeare quote wrong. Glad I noticed! Happy Valentine’s Day!
Such timeless collection you have here. All of them beautiful. 🙂
This is a wonderful collection of love poems. Thanks for sharing these bits – now I’ll have to finish reading the rest!
Whole lotta swoon going on here!
What a lovely collection of poems, Sherry! I especially love Burns and Rossetti!