love poetry

Still to one end they both so justly drew,
As courteous Doves together yok'd would do.
No weight of Birth did on one side prevaile,
Two Twins less even lie in Natures Scale,
They mingled Fates, and both in each did share,
They both were Servants, they both Princes were.
If any Joy to one of them was sent;
It was most his, to whom it least was meant,
And fortunes malice betwixt both was crost,
For striking one, it wounded th'other most.
Never did Marriage such true Union find,
Or mens desires with so glad violence bind;

Poore wasted Hart that wandrest not astray,
Although thy PEARLE her orient colour change:
Thou, which in thy first Faith unstaind dost stay,
Although she from her plighted vow doth range:
Ah, where are now thy cheerfull daies of Hope?
Thy Lives line, Love, what wretched hand hath broke?

Alas, poore soule, how badly art thou usde,
For thy much loving (loving over long?)
Causeles without desert to be refusde,
And for thy right to be repaid with wrong?
(Fond) do betimes from Fancies Fort retire,

Ah happie Handkercher, that keepst the signe,
(As only Monument unto my Fame)
How deare my Love was to sweet ALBA mine,
When (so) to shew my Love she did me blame.
Relique of LOVE I do not envie thee,
Though whom thy Master cannot, thou dost see.

Only let me intreat this Favour small,
When in her chamber all alone by chance,
Open her pretie Casket for some work she shall,
And hap her eye on thee unwares to glance:
Ah, then the colour of her face but marke,
And thou by that shalt know her inward hart.

Haires lovely Browne immur'd with pearle and gold,
How ill fits you this Ribbon Carnatine,
Since I no more your Mistris now behold,
Of my disaster, most unlucky signe,
Who to me gave this Bracelet for a FAVOUR,
A work by Beautie framde through LOVES true labour.

How often would she, bout my Wrist still prie,
And underminde me (by devise) as twere,
Making a shew of Doubt and Jelousie,
As if I it forgot bout me to beare?
But now I feare me, through her staying ore long,
Both LOVE, Her self, and Me, she much doth wrong.

All in green went my love riding
on a great horse of gold
into the silver dawn.

four lean hounds crouched low and smiling
the merry deer ran before.

Fleeter be they than dappled dreams
the swift sweet deer
the red rare deer.

Four red roebuck at a white water
the cruel bugle sang before.

Horn at hip went my love riding
riding the echo down
into the silver dawn.

four lean hounds crouched low and smiling
the level meadows ran before.

Softer be they than slippered sleep

Farewell !—we shall not meet again
As we are parting now!
I must my beating heart restrain—
Must veil my burning brow!
Oh, I must coldly learn to hide
One thought, all else above—
Must call upon my woman's pride
To hide my woman's love!
Check dreams I never may avow;
Be free, be careless, cold as thou!
Oh! those are tears of bitterness,
Wrung from the breaking heart,
When two blest in their tenderness
Must learn to live—apart!
But what are they to that long sigh,
That cold and fixed despair,

Tide be runnin' the great world over:
'Twas only last June month I mind that we
Was thinkin' the toss and the call in the breast of the lover
So everlastin' as the sea.

Here's the same little fishes that sputter and swim,
Wi' the moon's old glim on the gray, wet sand;
An' him no more to me nor me to him
Than the wind goin' over my hand.

In natures peeces still I see
Some errour, that might mended bee;
Something my wish could still remove,
Alter or adde; but my faire love
Was fram'd by hands farre more divine;
For she hath every beauteous line:
Yet I had beene farre happier,
Had Nature that made me, made her;
Then likenes, might (that love creates)
Have made her love what now she hates:
Yet I confesse I cannot spare,
From her just shape the smallest haire;
Nor need I beg from all the store
Of heaven, for her one beautie more:

My fault, my greatest fault,
O sea-eyed princess,
was to love you
as a child loves.
(The greatest lovers,
after all, are children)

My first mistake
(and not my last)
was to live
in the state of wonder
ready to be amazed
by the simple span
of night and day,

and ready for every woman
I loved to break me
into a thousand pieces to make
me an open city,
and to leave me behind her
as dust.
My weakness was to see
the world with the logic of a child.

One last kiss … then with tender eyes we went
Forth from the shadowy house of scattered light;
As children startled by a gruesome sight,
We wondered what the dim black waggon meant.

“A girl is dead,” we heard, and this was all;
But in my sleepless dreams she flutters past,
Like some unknown lost sister, found at last
Beyond the locked gate of a silent wall.

Had she been loved as I was loved, and died?
(Once in his arms I thought my heart would break!)
Could she not bear the kisses that I bore?