romantic poems

Back in those days ere I thought of love,
Kissing at games in a picnic grove,
Cried one lass as she made a spring:
" Make me a Lap! you stingy thing! "
Down in my lap sat the tired madcap
And in a snap she had " made her a Lap. "

Lissome, pliant, innocent vine,
Still to my heart I can feel her twine,
Trustfully as my kitten's play,
Light as the birds in that greenwood day;
Sweet as the sap in the fruit tree's tap,
Vine-like her wrap as I " made her a Lap. "

Country heart! there is no mishap, —

We are climbin' Jacob's ladder,
Soldier(s) of the cross.

Ev'ry round goes higher 'n' higher,
Soldier(s) of the cross.

Sinner ( or : brother), do you love my Jesus?
Soldier(s) of the cross.

Rise, shine, give God the glory,
Soldier(s) of the cross.

Another couplet:

If you love Him, why not serve Him?

By Mr. Brown .

Whether we Mortals love or no,
'Tis the same Case whate'er we do.
For Love does killing Pleasure give,
And without Love 'tis Death to Live:
If then to love, so painful be,
And not to love be Misery,
What a sad Case must he be in,
Who has disgrac'd and jilted been?
Banish'd for ever from those Eyes,
Which conquer Fools, and fool the Wise,
And none but Stoicks can despise?
They conquer, but they will not yield,
Love knows no such unequal Field:

A Poem.

M Y muse of Thirsis sings, and of the shade,
Where he, poor shepherd, with his Daphne stray'd:
On D UNSMORE waste, there stands a shady grove,
The sweet recess of solitude and love;
Hazles on this, on that side elms are seen,
To shade the verdant path that leads between.
A rose, less lovely than young Thirsis gay,
Adorns the sprig that bends across the way;
The way that does with various flow'rs abound,
The gentle shepherd cast his eyes around;

The Bard

A H me! but I'm sorry,
And with worry I'm sore,
I am powerless to state
What my fate is each hour.
What but my heart's anguish
Makes me languish such wise?
With the love that I've loved her,
Ne'er above it I'll rise.

The Crone

Silence, rascal, deal fairly,
Untruths spare to exhale,
I will yet trust thee barely
That there's no gild-thy-tale.

Thou tyrant God of Love, give o'er,
And persecute this breast no more:
Ah! tell me why must every dart
Be aim'd at my unhappy heart?
I never murmur'd or repin'd,
But patiently myself resign'd
To all the torments, which through thee
Have fell, alas! on wretched me:
But Oh! I can no more sustain
This long continued state of pain,
Though 'tis but fruitless to complain.
My heart, first soften'd by thy power,
Ne'er kept its liberty an hour:
So fond and easy was it grown,
Each nymph might call the fool her own:

Path driver, wind thy tender horn
When any vessel passes!
There's one we sometimes hail at morn,
Bright with her Captain's lassies;
Then sound this note, as Past we move
And break my flag above us!
How small the world before we love,
How great, with one to love us!

The tame canal is sometimes dull —
Not so when Polly meets me;
Her head and neck are beautiful,
With what an eye she greets me!
Wind all thy horn to tell my love
What echoes tell above us:
How dull the world before we love,

If that the Favours greatest are which we
Confer most voluntary, frank, and free;
And if that Benefit we value most,
Which comes the easiest, or in Toil, or Cost,
That courteous Virgin most our Thanks demands,
Who on no Wedlock-Terms precisely stands:
And she who soonest, cheapest, grants her Love,
Does the most honourable Mistress prove:
Who nobly does on her Friend's Faith rely,
Without a Bargain, Bond, or previous Tye.

But Marriage makes the Mode of bart'ring Love

Long of soft Words the Pow'r I try'd,
To bend my Chloris 's stubborn Will;
Awake, she still my Suit deny'd,
Asleep, did ev'ry Wish fulfil:
O charming Slumber, that could prove
More kind than all the Pow'rs of Love!

With Gold I strove to tempt her Eyes,
With Love and Musick touch her Ear;
But she did ev'ry Bribe despise,
Nor would my warm Addresses hear:
Had she not slept, I still in vain

God's nature and his name we read
When we behold the Saviour bleed;
And, when we hear his dying groan,
His shame and grief explain our own!

The lustre of the holy law,
Thus honour'd fills our minds with awe
And Calvey's scenes at once reveal
More love and wrath than heav'n and hell

How pure the truth that would not spare
Thine equal, thine eternal heir!
How great the love that freely gave
Thy son thine enemies to save!

Thy just commands, by him obey'd,
In all their beauties stand display'd;