poems about love

. . . . . . . . . But he found her not;
Lonely and empty was the leafy cot,
Like a sad streamlet in the winter's frost
With all the glory of its lilies lost.
He searched, he called: no answering voice was heard,
But a faint shudder that the branches stirred …

I weary of these noisy nights,
—Of shallow jest and coarse “good cheer,”
Of jazzy sounds and brilliant lights.
—Come, Love, let us away from here.

Let us lay down this heavy load;
—And, side by side, far from the town,
Drive on some lovely country road;
—And, wondering, watch the sun go down.

What time is left to us, come, Love.
—The woods, the fields, shall make us whole;
The nightly pageantry above
—Our little world, keep sweet our soul.

No peace this city's madness yields—

The winter-river's
Being frozen on top
Is like me:
Flowing underneath
My love seems to move.

O Pilgrim, comes the night so fast?
Let not the dark thy heart appall,
Though loom the shadows vague and vast,
For Love shall save us all.

There is no hope but this to see
Through tears that gather fast and fall;
Too great to perish Love must be,
And Love shall save us all.

Have patience with our loss and pain,
Our troubled space of days so small;
We shall not reach our arms in vain,
For Love shall save us all.

O Pilgrim, but a moment wait,
And we shall hear our darlings call

Johnny shall have a new bonnet,
—And Johnny shall go to the fair,
And Johnny shall have a blue ribbon
—To tie up his bonny brown hair.

And why may not I love Johnny,
—And why may not Johnny love me?
And why may not I love Johnny
—As well as another body?

And here's a leg for a stocking,
—And here's a foot for a shoe;
And he has a kiss for his daddy,
—And one for his mammy, too.

And why may not I love Johnny,
—And why may not Johnny love me?
And why may not I love Johnny,

In vain the morn,
In purple born,
Proclaims a day
For Love's sweet sway;
In thoughts of thee
The hours will flee,
But I must grieve
'Till silent eve.

The morning flies,
But leaves the skies
Its golden hue,
And cloudless blue;
Love riseth late,
For him I wait,
But I must grieve
'Till silent eve.

Come, happy night,
With quicker flight;
The sweet hour lead
With lightning speed;
Day doth appear
A long, long year,
When one must grieve

I will obey the strictest law of love
As if I dealt with cherubim above.
I will accept no half gift from my friend
By which he thinks for hate to make amend.
But every friendly thought
Will come to me unbought
My friend may do whate'er he will
And I shall love him
If he doth it from love.
But let him do whateer he will
I think that I must hate him still
If lower motives move.

I love not all
I love not one alway
But that I love is one & all
And lasteth ever and aye.

Unhappy eyes, why did you gaze again,
Upon these fatal love-inspiring spheres?
Knew you not how her fire-flaughts would constrain,
Your crystal circles to dissolve in tears?
And you again, ev'n as unhappy ears,
Why did her painted phrase your fort surprise?
Knew you not well, that on her lips she bears
A charming host of persuasive replies?
Oh, eyes and ears, that ye had been more wise,
And had not waken'd up a sleeping flame,
Yet since the fault is done, my comfort lies
Upon the merits of a matchless dame—

1. Great Lord of all, whose work of love Creation's
2. Stern death pronounced the dread decree, Entailed on
boundless realms display, Help us to join the
all of woman born, From sorrow set our
choirs above, And hail thy providential sway.
parents free, But left us helpless and forlorn.

3. Dark was the color of our fate
Till thy benignant mercy shown,
Redeemed us from our wretched state,
And made the fatherless thine own.

4. Our hopes revive, our fears are fled,
Our joyless days and nights are o'er.

For this is Wisdom; to love, to live,
To take what Fate, or the Gods, may give,
To ask no question, to make no prayer,
To kiss the lips and caress the hair,
Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow,--
To have,--to hold,--and,--in time,--let go!