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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LOVE - COMPLAINTS Matches Found: 552 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "PHILLIDA FLOUTS ME [OR, THE COUNTRY'S LOVER'S COMPLAINT]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o what a plague [or, pain] is love!" Last Line: And all for that my dear / phillada flouts me Variant Title(s): The Disdainful Shpeherdess Subject(s): Love - Complaints "SWEET, LET ME GO! SWEET, LET ME GO!", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "and I would cry, but some would hear, I fear me" Subject(s): Love - Complaints (ON NOT) MEETING DAVID AT THE BEACH, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Silky-white, the sand I brush from my ankles sprays Last Line: Do we miss them, the dead? They go with us everywhere Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel .........?, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I loved you...What would it be?' Last Line: Already the forest sprouts in my window! Subject(s): Love - Complaints A BACHELOR'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: If I were younger, mary jane Last Line: And she will love me dearly! Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Valentine's Day; Youth; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 14, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blame not my cheeks, though pale with love they be Last Line: Poor cupid sits and blows his nails for cold. Subject(s): Love - Complaints A BROKEN APPOINTMENT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You did not come Last Line: You love not me? Subject(s): Love - Complaints A COMPLAINT, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I here to cynthia spake my mind Last Line: And find no certain rest till life be done. Subject(s): Love - Complaints A FANCY, FR. ROSALIND [ROSLYNDE], by THOMAS LODGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First shall the heaven want starry light Last Line: Cease to recite thy sacred name. Variant Title(s): A Lover's Protestation [or, Vow] Subject(s): Love - Complaints A FOOLISH TONGUE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Her face is full of silent pain Last Line: Rise up, and cry — 'for shame!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pain; Vengeance; Suffering; Misery A FORSAKEN LADY TO HER FALSE SERVANT THAT IS DISDAINED BY NEW MISTRESS, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were it that you so shun me 'cause you wish Last Line: Oh, make me choose rather to freeze than burn. Subject(s): Love - Complaints A FRAGMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No cold approach, no altered mien Last Line: He made me blest -- and broke my heart. Subject(s): Love - Complaints A LETTER TO SARA HUTCHINSON, APRIL 4, 1802 -- SUNDAY EVENING, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! If the bard was weatherwise, who made Last Line: Thus may'st thou ever, evermore rejoice! Subject(s): Grief; Hutchinson, Sara; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness A LITTLE GIRL LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children of the future age Last Line: "that shakes the blossoms of my hoary hair!" Subject(s): Bible; Love - Complaints; Mythology A LOVERS' QUARREL, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were you, when ladies at the play, sir Last Line: [waltz -- exeunt. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Variant Title(s): Tu Quoque; An Idyll In The Conservatory Subject(s): Love - Complaints A MARRIED COQUETTE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sit still, I say, and dispense with heroics! Last Line: And put out the lights. We are through with our play. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations A NYMPH TO A YOUNG SHEPHERD, INSENSIBLE OF LOVE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou fly me thus? Last Line: Thus led by sports, and wing'd by thy disdain. Subject(s): Love - Complaints A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hello? / 'oh, hi.' Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Suicide A RENOUNCING OF LOVE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, love, and all thy laws for ever! Last Line: Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): "sonnet: 31;farewell To Love;""farwell, Love, And All Thy Lawes For Ever""; Subject(s): Love - Complaints A RENUNCIATION, by EDWARD DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If women could be fair, and yet not fond Last Line: To play with fools, o, what a fool was I! Alternate Author Name(s): Bulbeck, Lord; Oxford, 17th Earl Of; Vere, Edward De Variant Title(s): Of Women Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Women A SAILOR'S SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We kissed good-bye in the gloaming Last Line: "till the trump of the judgment-day!" Subject(s): Absence; Love - Complaints; Sailing & Sailors; Separation; Isolation A SONG, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I met my own true love Last Line: Though it is false to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Complaints A SONG, by JOHN JONES SHARON Poem Text First Line: My heart's wrapped up in a little, old pine Last Line: Happen you know why she 's done wi' me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations A SONG: REVENGE AGAINST CYNTHIA, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, cupid, we have found our lovely foe Last Line: Revenge thyself, and me, upon her heart. Subject(s): Love - Complaints A SONNET. LOVE'S CONTRARIETY, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I make no war, and yet no peace have found Last Line: Both life and death do equally displease. Subject(s): Love - Complaints A SPINNING SONG, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many lilies be ablow? Last Line: Oh, love's bitter! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Spinning A VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Time was, sweet dame (when broidered coats were smart Last Line: That you will be, indeed, my valentine? Subject(s): Cupid; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Valentine's Day; Eros A VARIATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired of this! Last Line: Reverently and adore. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Hate; Love - Complaints A WOMAN'S ANSWER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I will not let you say a woman's part Last Line: O, more a thousand times, than all the rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Women A WOMAN'S QUESTION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Before I trust my fate to thee Last Line: Would risk it all! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Love - Complaints A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 1, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the past year were offered me again Last Line: Had conquered and repentance was too late. Subject(s): Love - Complaints A YOUNG MAID'S RESOLUTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "go, young man, let my heart alone" Last Line: "since love's a fire, and fires will out" Subject(s): Love - Complaints ACCESSION, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I loved, and my heart bowed down Last Line: And I turn my eyes away. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Love - Complaints AD ASTRA: 36, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In love's great heights and depths thou canst not Last Line: In one all-perfect joy, too soon to expire! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life; Love - Complaints AD ASTRA: 47, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O love! That sitt'st upon thy deathless throne Last Line: —ah! Once like this did dawn in eden rise!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Eden; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of; Paradise AD ASTRA: 57, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How long, dear heart, how long must we repine? Last Line: The impassion'd peace that only lovers know? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Peace ADDE MERUM VINOQUE..., by ALBIUS TIBULLUS Poem Source First Line: Fill up may glass again! The anodyne Last Line: Venus, I've always served you faithfully. %don't burn your harvest in your rage at me! Variant Title(s): Adde Merum Vinoqu Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Love - Complaints ADVENT STANZAS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are we always creating you, as rilke said Last Line: I am too imperfect to bear Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Poetry And Poets; Rebirth AFFAIRE D'AMOUR, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: One pale november day Last Line: (o carless lover!) Subject(s): Love - Complaints AFTER REVERDY, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would never have wanted to see your sad face again Last Line: That kind of love is terrible Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Reverdy, Pierre (1889-1960) AGAINST LOVE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ere my heart, love's warmth, but entertaines Last Line: Or let me 'gender with eternall frost. Subject(s): Love - Complaints AH, FOOLISH HEART, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, foolish heart through all whose pulses rushes Last Line: I trample on my heart, and bid it break. Subject(s): Love - Complaints ALCIDA: VERSES WRITTEN UNDER CARVING OF CUPID BLOWING BALDDERS IN AIR, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a lock that linketh noble minds Last Line: As foul disgrace to greatest states do[th] bring. Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints AMO AMAS AMAT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You love my dearest phylonella Last Line: Come to get their slave for free Subject(s): Love - Complaints AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 14. THE DESTROYING ANGEL, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wanders through the city like a troubled ghost Last Line: A hungering heart, a silent proud appealing soul. Subject(s): Love - Complaints AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 16. THE PAUSE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trouble has come upon us like a sudden cloud Last Line: I look out on the world wonderingly, and wait. Subject(s): Love - Complaints AN EARLY CHRISTIAN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt in the panther-fells Last Line: "and I cried in pain: ""o lord my god!" Subject(s): Christianity; Love - Complaints AN INVECTIVE AGAINST LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All is not golde that shineth bright in show Last Line: So flatt'ring lookes the lover's life doth spill Subject(s): Love - Complaints ANCIENT AIRS AND DANCES, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew too well Subject(s): Love - Complaints ANCIENT AIRS AND DANCES, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew too well Last Line: Trying to drag me with you? Subject(s): Love - Complaints ANCIENT BALLAD: COOLING FOUNTAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Cooling fountain, cooling fountain %cooling fountain, full of love Last Line: I can never, never love thee %I will never wed thee - no! Subject(s): Deception; Love - Complaints ANSWER, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, you have broken my wings - I cried Last Line: There is a sound! Subject(s): Hope; Love - Complaints; Optimism ANSWER TO MASTER WITHER'S SONG, 'SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR?', by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I mine affections slack Last Line: What care I, what others be? Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Wither, George (1588-1667) AT JEANNIE'S IN EL RITO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: There are simple pleasures Last Line: To cut through my hatred Subject(s): Hate; Love - Complaints BAD COOKING, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it roughens true love's course, and Last Line: Bills? Bad cooking. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Quarrels; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Arguments; Disagreements BALLAD, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbird sings in the hazel-brake Last Line: You are nothing more to me. Subject(s): Flirtation; Love - Complaints BALLADE OF SPRYNGE-TYME, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Text First Line: Nowe cometh the soe gracious month of maye Last Line: For the faire boone this merrye month doth brynge. Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Spring BITTERNESS, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, they were kind exceedingly; most mild Last Line: Went. Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): Love - Complaints BLACK MARE, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It snakes behind me, this invisible chain gang Last Line: Terminal hotel, the world shuddering with trains Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Hotels; Love - Complaints; Disappointmenr; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses BRIDAL OF ANDALLA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rise up, rise up, xarifa! Lay the golden cushion down Last Line: To gaze on false andalla with all the gazing town! Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Grief; Love - Complaints; Marriage - Forced BROKEN BONDS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Released! Released! Yes, broken is the chain Last Line: And gains, instead, scorn's stormy crags and night! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pain; Suffering; Misery BROKEN TRYST, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting in the woodland, watching for Last Line: If only I were half a man . . . I'd let the baggage go. Subject(s): Love - Complaints CABARET LUDWIG, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love - Complaints CANZONE: 6, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last withdraw your cruelty Last Line: Of double death can die. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Love - Complaints CANZONETTA: A BITTER SONG TO HIS LADY, by PIER MORONELLI DI FIORENZA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lady amorous, / merciless lady Last Line: Fever and ague. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations CAPRICE, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who thankless flees me, I with love pursue Last Line: Or else by him who scorns me brought to %shame Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Love - Complaints CHAMA, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Eros and logos were one to her Last Line: Crystallized into the horn %of 8,000 hungers Subject(s): Deception; Love - Complaints CODA, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Docs have released the poet Last Line: Kiddo, see ya around the literary neighborhood. %and stay wet!' Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness COME NOT NEAR MY SONGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Leaps my heart upon you! Subject(s): Hearts;innocence;love;love - Complaints;singing & Singers COMMENT, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: A woman seldom knows the east Last Line: She moans to feel them move beneath the heart. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Women COMPARES THE TROUBLES WHICH HE HAS UNDERGONE, TO LABOURS OF HERCULES, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not hercules himself did undertake Last Line: Th' hesperian garden rob, and heav'n support. Subject(s): Hercules; Love - Complaints; Mythology - Classical COMPLAINT OF THE LOVER DISDAINED, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In cyprus springs, whereas dame venus dwelt Last Line: My service thus is growne into disdayne. Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Subject(s): Love - Complaints CONSTANCY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "one eve of beauty, when the sun" Last Line: "but one week more, and I believed / as much the woman as the sand" Subject(s): Love - Complaints;unfaithfulness; Infidelity;adultery;inconstancy CUPID IN AMBUSH, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: When I went down the autumn lane Last Line: I knew I should not laugh again. Subject(s): Cupid; Grief; Love; Love - Complaints; Eros; Sorrow; Sadness CURSE OF THE CAT WOMAN, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It sometimes happens Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Love - Complaints DANCE OF DEATH: WOMAN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was as green willow Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Single People; Women DAVIE GELLATLEY'S SONG, FR. WAVERLEY, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: False love, and hast thou played me this Last Line: I'll smile on other men. Subject(s): Love - Complaints DEAD DUCKS, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: My friend's husband weighs down Last Line: What are a few dead ducks %compared to our children's joy? Subject(s): Ducks; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Mothers DEAD LOVE, by ELIZABETH SIDDAL Poem Source First Line: Oh never weep for love that's dead Last Line: And this only earth, my dear, %where true love is not given Subject(s): Love - Complaints DEJECTION: AN ODE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! If the bard was weather-wise, who made Last Line: Thus mayest thou ever, evermore rejoice. Variant Title(s): The New Moon;letter To Sara Hutchinson: 4 April 1802, Sunday Evening Subject(s): Grief; Hutchinson, Sara; Love - Complaints; Melancholy; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection DESIGNS OF GALLANTRY, by ELIZABETH WELDON Poem Text First Line: My future, once so well-arranged Last Line: I must remember to forget. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Self DESIRING HER TO BURN HIS VERSES, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These papers, chariessa, let thy breath Last Line: Things without sense from flames, and yet not me. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Poetry & Poets DEVASTATED BY LOVE, by OLDRICH MIKULASEK Poem Source First Line: Confused by love, I feel Last Line: As if you yourself were leafless -- %devasted by love Subject(s): Love - Complaints DEVASTATION, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love, you have shorn me, and rifled my heart Last Line: That breaks as the plaint of a sorrowing child. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Complaints DINING OUT, by JOHN KRUMBERGER Poem Source First Line: A man sings romantic ballads in the piano lounge swaying like a bear Last Line: Cliff Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Grief; Love - Complaints; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Tears DIONYSIACA: CHALCOMEDE PRAYS TO BE SAVED FROM LOVE, by NONNUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So vainly through the night prayed morreus, sick for love Last Line: She spoke, and her mind was whirling by the neighbouring sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Nonnos; Nonnus Of Panopolis Subject(s): Love - Complaints DISTANCE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the fire I burn, and run in vain Last Line: Near, or at distance, can her flames convey. Subject(s): Love - Complaints DO NOT TELL HIM, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, do not tell him Last Line: He might believe you. Subject(s): Love - Complaints DRIFT, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Travel; Love - Complaints; Disappointment; Absence; Journeys; Trips; Separation; Isolation DRUNK IN PECOS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: We smoked 2 joints and talked Last Line: To the full moon and the dust Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Drinks And Drinking; Love - Complaints; New Mexico EARTH POEMS: 6, by JAVIER HERAUD Poem Source First Line: Sugar tastes like fresh Last Line: In its sweet burn-out end Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Poetry And Poets EASTER MORNING, by EVERETTE BACH Poem Source First Line: How many years since that easter morning when I left him Last Line: We touched fingers, and whispered like children Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Memory ELUSIVE MAID, by ABRAHAM IBN CHASDAI Poem Source First Line: Thrice-cruel maid, may heaven frown on thee Last Line: For that thy face is in my eyes impressed Subject(s): Love - Complaints EOLUS, by LILIAN ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: Ah, sweet trembling violet Last Line: The wind is a faithless lover. Subject(s): Distrust; Love - Complaints EPIGRAM, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fie, delia, talk no more of love Last Line: Of cuckolding my ancestors. Subject(s): Love - Complaints EPPIE MACNAB, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O saw ye my dearie, my eppie macnab Last Line: Thou's broken the heart o' thy ain jock rab. Subject(s): Love - Complaints EROS TURANNOS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She fears him, and will always ask Last Line: Where down the blind are driven. Subject(s): Fate; Fear; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Marriage; Destiny; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ESSAY: IN THE WORLD THAT WAS SLATED TO BE REAPPORTIONED THAT DAY OR, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a crisis in my male domesticity Last Line: Difficult at all. Subject(s): Essays; Love - Complaints ESTHER: 40, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I tell my fall? The life of man Subject(s): Love - Complaints ESTRANGEMENT, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some day I shall be dead, and pride Last Line: Above—where daisies nod? Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Dead, The ETERNITY OF LOVE PROTESTED, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How ill doth he deserve a lovers name Last Line: Shall, like a hallowed lamp, for ever burn. Subject(s): Love - Complaints EXCUSE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I too have suffer'd; yet I know Last Line: Their gay, unwavering, deep disdain. Variant Title(s): Urania Subject(s): Love - Complaints EXILE, by ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK Poem Source First Line: This mania of knowing I am an angel Last Line: And devastate hope Subject(s): Angels; Exiles; Love - Complaints EXMOOR VERSES: 3. DERELICTION, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the tears that we shed, dear Last Line: And forget the broken vows! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Love - Complaints EXPOSTULATION WITH LOVE IN DESPAIR, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, with what strange tyrannic laws must they Last Line: Neither, or both, are equal happiness. Subject(s): Love - Complaints FAITHFUL LOVERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'd been away from her three years, - about that Last Line: I don't call that unfaithfulness - do you?' %'no,' I replied, 'for I am married too' Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness FAREWELL TO LOVE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well-shadow'd landskip, fare ye well Last Line: And so I love no more. Subject(s): Love - Complaints FETTERS, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In too much seeking love I found but grief Last Line: Rends from my heart itself a part of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Complaints; Liberty FIAT JUSTITIA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, all is ended now, for I have weighed thee Last Line: Thy fitful love by the strong pain of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Complaints FICTION, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Love! Last Line: Ere dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Complaints FIDELIA: 4. THE AUTHOR'S RESOLUTION IN A SONNET, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I, wasting in despair Last Line: What care I, for whom she be? Variant Title(s): The Lover's Resolution;shepherd's Resolution;the Resolution;the Manly Heart Subject(s): Love - Complaints FIE ON LOVE, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, fie on foolish love! It not befits Last Line: To marry is to make it ten times worse. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FIELD, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The afternoon is dying Last Line: In the distance, love's darkness waits for you Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Travel FLICKERS, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Abandoned town on the border, I wait Last Line: This prayer they will teach me Subject(s): Desolation; Love - Complaints; Prayer FLIRTATION; A DIALOGUE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From her own room, in summer's softest eve Last Line: Married at guernsey!!!' -- oh! The villain, dear! Subject(s): Flirtation; Love - Complaints FOR FEAR, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For fear I want Last Line: Into old hurt? Subject(s): Fear; Love - Complaints FOR FEAR, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For fear I want Last Line: Bent nail %into old hurt Subject(s): Fear; Love - Complaints FOR THAT HE LOOKED NOT UPON HER, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You must not wonder, though you think it strange Last Line: Because your blazing eyes my bale have bred. Subject(s): Love - Complaints FORSAKEN, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: My heart is far too sad to sing Last Line: A galling grief. Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love - Complaints; Optimism FOUR SONGS BY WAY OF CHORUS TO A PLAY: 4. INCOMMUNICABILITY OF LOVE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By what power was love confin'd Last Line: Without a rival, monarch of the breast. Subject(s): Love - Complaints FRAGMENT: 2, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Your smile breaks %before me Last Line: It is singeing my skin Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints FRANCOIS VILLON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our good duke charles, you tell me, fain would know Last Line: A sorry vintage. Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Complaints; Sex; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); War; Joy; Delight FRESCO-SONNETS TO CHRISTIAN S.: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of savage devils'-brats, my friend, beware Last Line: And could my life-blood meanwhile cease to drip! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Love - Complaints FROM SEA TO SEA BETWEEN US IS THE WAR, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That now has felt the ax's frozen blade Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Love - Complaints; War FUCK THE ASTRONAUTS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eventually we must combine nightmares Subject(s): Relationships; Desire; Love - Complaints GACELA OF THE BITTER ROOT, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There is a bitter root Last Line: Chew on your bitter root Subject(s): Love - Complaints GERARDA, by ELOISE ALBERTA VERONICA BIBB Poem Text First Line: The day is o'er and twilight's shade Last Line: "for all my life, I'll share with thee." Subject(s): Love - Complaints GIACINTA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Giacinta sat upon the garden wall Last Line: She was the fairest child of italy. Subject(s): Deception; Hearts; Love - Complaints GIFT, by JULIA EKLUND Poem Text First Line: My grief lies heavily upon my heart Last Line: Since it was dealt, with eager hands, by you Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness GOOD AND EVIL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A wealth of stars in winter time Last Line: Could I have left love's scorn unpondered? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Complaints HARSH WORDS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harsh words too cruelly sped, yet thoughts / unspoken Last Line: This is love's poor heaven. Yet not to love is hell. Subject(s): Language; Love - Complaints; Words; Vocabulary HATE ME A LITTLE, by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Hate me a little if you cannot love Last Line: Hate me a little if you cannot love. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints HE THAT HATH NO MISTRESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He that hath no mistress must not wear a favour Last Line: "false cupid, I will have thee whipped, and have thy mother carted" Subject(s): Love - Complaints HEART'S ECHO, by WESLEY CURTWRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Time heals the wound, but still the scar is there! Last Line: And with each stab the wound is fresh again! Alternate Author Name(s): Curtright, Wesley Subject(s): Love - Complaints HEART-SICK, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: O, tears, I know not what you mean Last Line: Ye bitter, scalding, tear-wrung tears. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Love - Complaints; Mothers; Dead, The HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980), by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him bleeding but I thought all blood was a dream Subject(s): Women's Rights; Love - Complaints; Relationships; Feminism HER LOVE POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Demon, demon, you have dumped me Last Line: Or hate you but I will have you %have you have you Subject(s): Love - Complaints HERALDIC DECORATION, by JULIO HERRERA Y REISSIG Poem Source First Line: O lady, the object of my abject homage Last Line: Like a carpet I lay my slave-heart Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints HEROIC LOVE, by JAMES GRAHAM (1612-1650) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My dear and only love, I pray Last Line: So I can love no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Montrose, 1st Marquis Of Variant Title(s): An Excellent New Ballad;i'll Never Love Thee More;montrose's Love;a Proper New Ballad;montrose To His Mistress Subject(s): Courage; Fidelity; Love - Complaints; Valor; Bravery; Faithfulness; Constancy HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 13, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And that thou may'st remember thy disdain Last Line: How much, azile, thou hast scorn'd my tears. Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth Subject(s): Disdain; Love - Complaints; Scorn HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 35, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But stay, complaints, return unto your owner Last Line: And there reward her inhumanity. Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth Subject(s): Love - Complaints HIS COVENANTY OR PROTESTATION TO JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do'st thou wound, & break my heart? Last Line: I'm halfe return'd before I go. Subject(s): Love - Complaints HIS MISERY IN A MISTRESSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water, water I espie Last Line: Of those girles, which cruell are. Subject(s): Love - Complaints HIS MODEST WISH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I know, alas, fair dame, that you Last Line: Oh, let me be your scepter-bearer! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Modesty; Wishes; Male-female Relations HIS RECANTATION, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, I recant Last Line: And slave it in an houre. Subject(s): Love - Complaints HONEYBEE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You do everything, melissa, just the way Last Line: For money you have a sharp sting Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Love - Complaints; Pentastichs HORACE: SONG AT THE END OF ACT 1, by PIERRE CORNEILLE Poem Text First Line: So wretched are the sick of love Last Line: Whether in hope, or in possession. Subject(s): Love - Complaints HOW MUCH?, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How much do you love me, a million bushels? Subject(s): Love - Complaints HUNGARIAN LOVE-LAMENT, by ETHEL SYFORD Poem Text First Line: They say the cranes last night did cry Last Line: Overhead. Subject(s): Hungary; Love - Complaints HUSBAND AND WIFE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: H. Oh! With what woes am I oppressed! Last Line: W. You'll hardly laugh before you die. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HUSBAND AND WIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reach out your arms, and hold me close and fast Last Line: God! How men lie, when driven to the wall!) Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HUSBANDRY, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I began my love to sow Last Line: Grows fat by contradiction. Subject(s): Love - Complaints I DID NOT THINK, by ELEANOR A. FAY Poem Text First Line: I did not think in that fair spring Last Line: Love was a game, and I have lost. Subject(s): Love - Complaints I DO NOT KNOW IT FOR SURE, by JAIME SABINES GUTIERREZ Poem Source First Line: I do not know it for sure, but I suppose Last Line: They see themselves naked and they know everything Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Silence; Solitude I GAVE MY LOVE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gave my love to a wastrel Last Line: I'd give it him again. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations I HAVE LIVED IN YOUR FACE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love - Complaints I KNOW THE STARS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know the stars by their names Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Stars; Love - Complaints I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND LOVE, by HAROLD NOURSE Poem Source First Line: My heart felt stabbed Last Line: I would not recommend %love Subject(s): Love - Complaints I'M BLACK AND BLUE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm black and blue from their worrying Last Line: Or even hated me. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints IF I COULD TOUCH, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could touch your hand to-night Last Line: The passing of a summer's night. Subject(s): Love - Complaints ILLITERATE, by SHADAB VAJDI Poem Source First Line: I know a man Last Line: But who cannot read %the eyes of a woman %whom he thinks he loves Subject(s): Love - Complaints IMITATIONS OF VARIOUS AUTHORS, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That haughty tyranny of thine Last Line: Alone where the cold couch is dressed? Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Beauty; Love - Complaints IN THE SALZKAMMERGUT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did you do with my heart Last Line: Or annalise - totally disappear- %ed - will it be the same with you? Subject(s): Love - Complaints INFORMAL COMPOSITION, by MENG CHIAO Poem Source First Line: Come not too close to the sharp sword Last Line: Love's troubles are not in numbers: %just one evening scars the soul Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Love - Complaints INTESTINE OF TAOS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dirt part of the road is five miles Last Line: Cool summer night in the desert; boulevard of stars. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Love - Complaints; New Mexico INTRIGUE, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Thou art my love Last Line: Woe, welcome woe, to me. Subject(s): Love - Complaints IRONY, by MARY FRANCES WARD Poem Text First Line: His soul is like a secret room Last Line: I'd throw the key away! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Soul ITS CARELESS POSTURE, ITS LONG TRUNK, ITS HOWLING OS, FOR SO, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Any wool, what on earth could be keeping it Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bodies; Love; Love - Complaints JAMAIS, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early love is swift and golden Last Line: Bends to thee—jamais! Jamais! Subject(s): Love - Complaints JOY MAY KILL, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too much good luck no less than misery Last Line: (john addington symonds) Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Dead, The JULIA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Julia was blest with beauty, wit, and grace Last Line: At once her lover and her lap-dog lost. Subject(s): Love - Complaints JULY, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sharp sweet scent of rose pinks Last Line: And write a song of grief! Subject(s): Love - Complaints JULY PHANTOM, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: In the declivities of love, those terse gamuts Last Line: And this is a true skunk whose bright fur I am stroking Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints KNOWLEDGE, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I thought that healing came Last Line: In its hands and feet. Subject(s): Love - Complaints KOKINSHU: LOVE (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Though you made me think Last Line: Was your power to forget Subject(s): Love - Complaints L'ENVOY, by ? RANDOLPH Poem Text First Line: Draw down thy curtains close, o heart! Last Line: My life will float, so dreary. Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints LAMENT FOR THE SAILING OF THE CRUSADE, by RINALDO D' AQUINO Poem Source First Line: Past comfort, all despairing Last Line: To lands across the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Rinaldo D'aquino Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Lament; Love - Complaints; Sailors And Sailing LAMENT OF A DESPISED LOVER, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Say, lovelorn heart, that art condemned upon despair to feed Last Line: And thou, poor tortured body, thou art wasted with thy pain Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Lament; Love - Complaints; Tears LAST NIGHT I DIVED MY BEGGAR ARM, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love - Complaints LE PERE SEVERE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: King louis on his bridge is he Last Line: Than give my true love up for thee' Subject(s): Forgiveness;hearts;love - Complaints; Clemency LEAVING ME, AND THEY LOVING MANY, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So men, who once have cast the truth away Last Line: And rend that glorious empire of her heart. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LEFT IN LIFE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a dream. What then? Are dreams untrue? Last Line: Pleased with the folly of thy straining hands. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Passion; Solitude; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness LETTER TO SISTER MARY APPASSIONATE, AMERICA'S ADVISER TO THE LOVELORN, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My husband's heart's gone Last Line: Sweet and fresh, everlasting. Like death Subject(s): Love - Complaints LETTER TO TORU FROM PROVINCETOWN, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Almost sunset at herring cove, %red sun bowing low Last Line: I would send it if I knew Subject(s): Love - Complaints LINES ADDRESSED TO THOMAS WATSON, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If graver heads shall count it overlight Last Line: Shall yield thee gracious favour and defence. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Watson, Thomas (1557-1592) LINES TO MACIAS EL ENAMORADO, by JUAN DE MENA Poem Source First Line: We in this radiant circle looked so long Last Line: That I should die, as I have lived, a lover! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Pain LINES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF A GIRL BURNING LOVE LETTER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took the scroll: I could not brook Last Line: I fear'd it was love's history. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Letters; Love - Complaints LITTLE MAN, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: Little man, oh little man Last Line: Don't ask any more of me Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Complaints LONG TIME BACK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Now what have I to live for Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage LOOKING AT A PORTRAIT, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: O why are there eyes like these Last Line: O why are there arms like these? Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Portraits LOOKING ON, AND DISCOURSING WITH HIS MISTRESS, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These full two howers now have I been gazing Last Line: And there in darknesse and despair remain. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOSS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said: 'let my body be burned!' Last Line: Longed to lie by his side in her death. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOSSES, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: In every battle something dies Last Line: Hurt with the thing that anger smote. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Betrayal; Fights; Love - Complaints LOST FOR A ROSE'S SAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I laved my hands Last Line: That my love marie / might love me yet Subject(s): Hearts;love - Complaints;pain; Suffering;misery LOST HOPE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cast to ground the hope which once was mine Last Line: And filled the cup with dew. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE (1), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She pressed her slight hand to her brow, or pain Last Line: And this is love! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE ABUSED, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is there in the vale of life Last Line: And sighs that heave a breaking heart. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE GIVEN OVER, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is enough; enough of time, and paine Last Line: Who has not only sackt, but quite burnt down the towne. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE IMPEACHED, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Listen for pity -- I impeach Last Line: That, after all, he's but a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE IN EXILE II: 5, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I wonder if you guess Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE IS A SIRRUP, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a sirrup; and who er'e we see Last Line: Ther's loathsomnesse e'en in the sweets of love. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE IS FALSE, by KIM SANG'YONG+(1) Poem Source First Line: Love is false, that he loves me is a lie Last Line: If you are sleepless as I, in which dream %would you see me> Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 51, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you take me because you loved me? Last Line: To experiment on my heart? Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 55, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is too long to the sleepless Last Line: On the twisted paths of love? Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE POEMS: 3, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long agone a youthful swain Last Line: "o let her love me less, or I like more." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE POEMS: 5, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep are the wounds which strike a virtuous name Last Line: Whose darts, wounds, flames, and frowns, meet all in me. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "beautiful is she, this woman" Last Line: Behind which it blooms Subject(s): Beauty;love - Complaints;women LOVE SONG, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweep the house clean Last Line: From black branches. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE SONGS: 8, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye merry birds, leave of to sing Last Line: A hand to wound, but none to cure. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE UNKIND, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out upon the bleak hillside, the bleak Last Line: Wept the sweet morn her crystal tears that love should prove unkind! Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE WAS RISING BETWEEN US, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source Last Line: And finding each other distant Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Love - Complaints; Romance LOVE'S AUTOGRAPH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once only did he pass my way Last Line: "he wrote (and vanished) ""pain." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE'S BITTERNESS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why should I love, where others would despise? Last Line: Their light I'd quench to prove thy constancy! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Jealousy; Love - Complaints LOVE'S FAREWELL, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more!' I said to love. 'no more!' Last Line: He sent a parthian arrow back! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE'S INGRATITUDE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I little thought, thou fond ingratefull sinne Last Line: That t'were rebellion now to claim mine owne. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE'S LAMENT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On night's secrecy relying Last Line: Love, behold! -- the cause art thou! Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE'S LANGUAGE, by S. JOSE M. PINO Poem Source First Line: What matter that thy modest lips, my dear one Last Line: Yes, many a time and oft! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints LOVE'S ONENESS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If I had loved thee less, I had been free Last Line: My world is lost,—yet thou dost merely chide! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE'S PHANTOM, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shut out day's wintry beams Last Line: Why take thy flight? Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE'S SACRIFICE, by JOHN FORD (1586-1639) Poem Text First Line: Depart the court? Last Line: That ever here befell a sadder day. [exeunt. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE'S WAYS, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were not cruel always! Nay Last Line: Now, you need never come again. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE, WHY DON'T YOU COME!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Surely you could save one day for me? Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE-SICKNESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I will lie down within Last Line: She knoweth mine illness Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVER'S COMPLAINT, by FERDINAND DE HERRERA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bright sun! That flaming through Last Line: See ye these cruel stars,that brighten %and yet freeze? Alternate Author Name(s): Herrera, Fernando De Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVERS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think perhaps my heart would be less sore Last Line: If I need not look on lovers any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Love - Complaints; Love - Unrequited LULLABY FOR REGRET, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tuck you in, thin sliver Last Line: And nothing would go wrong. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Regret LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 12, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lov'st me not, thou tellest me Last Line: I'm comforted, my darling. Subject(s): Lips; Love - Complaints LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 15, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon my mistress's eyes so clear Last Line: I soon would write a charming sonnet. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Poetry & Poets LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 18, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gleams my love in beauty's splendour Last Line: What the beauteous fool hath done. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 19, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll not be angry, though my heart should break Last Line: How wretched, love, thou art, too well I saw. Subject(s): Love - Complaints LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 20, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou'rt wretched, yes! -- but no complaint I'll make Last Line: My love, we both, alas, must wretched be! Subject(s): Love - Complaints LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 23, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O if the tiny flowers Last Line: Who thus hath wounded my heart. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Complaints; Tears LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 57, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt once more the vision of yore Last Line: But the biting was rather too spiteful! Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Kisses; Love - Complaints; Nightmares; Paradise MADRIGAL, by JOHN FARMER Poem Text First Line: You pretty flowers that smile for summer's sake Last Line: Feeding mine eyes redoubles tear for tear. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Tears MADRIGAL 121, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now love, see how this lady, young and fair Last Line: Avenge at last your honor and my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints MADRIGAL: TO HIS LADY SELVAGGIA VERGIOLESI, by CINO DA PISTOIA Poem Text First Line: I am all bent to glean the golden ore Last Line: Than gold out of that stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinibaldi, Guittoncino Dei Subject(s): Love - Complaints MAGDALEN, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sword, whose blade has ne'er been wet Last Line: The loved, the lovely magdalen. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Greece; Love - Complaints; Soldiers; Greeks MAY MOODS (TO J.H.), by ZELLA MURIEL WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: My eyes would burn you up with scorn Last Line: Do you think to repay it with a bauble? Subject(s): Love - Complaints MAY MOODS (TO J.K.), by ZELLA MURIEL WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: You are like all the others Last Line: The smile you call inscrutable. Subject(s): Love - Complaints MEDIOCRITY IN LOVE REJECTED, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me more love, or more disdain Last Line: Give me more love or more disdain. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religious as Subject(s): Love - Complaints MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religious as Last Line: Mail downstairs. Turning, I spit in the lock and the knob turns Subject(s): Love - Complaints MISERERE; SONNET, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think the pity of this earthly life Last Line: I think the pity of this life is love! Subject(s): Love - Complaints MISGIVINGS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps you'll tire of me, muses Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Togetherness; Love - Complaints MISSING WIFE, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: The poster at the truck stop Last Line: For all the pictures %he took of her Subject(s): Amnesia; Love - Complaints; Marriage MOOD, by NATE SALSBURY Poem Text First Line: She loves me! / wherefore I walk lightfoot Last Line: Keep 'em, you robber! Alternate Author Name(s): Ireland, Baron Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints MOTTO TO 'GIFTS', by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gifts of one who loved me Last Line: Time they stopped for shame. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love - Complaints MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: So much loving, so much loving Last Line: Eyes that once were gay are saddened %and cruelly aching Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What shall I do, my mother? Last Line: My beloved is at the door Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Presence MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My heart, my heart goes from me, lord Last Line: He is ill, when will he be well? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Sickness MULANHUA MAN: REPLYING TO ZHENG XI AND ECHOING HIS RHYME, by WU SHI NU Poem Source First Line: How I admire talent and elegance Last Line: Stained with teardrops beyond courting Subject(s): Love - Complaints MY FRIEND, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a friend who battled for the truth Last Line: And rest his rebel heart, and close his eyes. Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Complaints MY GARDEN GIRL, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: My garden girl with sunburned nose Last Line: My garden girl. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Relationships MY LADY, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like putting forth upon a sea Last Line: As is the fickle ocean. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Complaints MY PRETTY NEIGHBOR, by ? WEGENER Poem Text First Line: If you've nothing, dear, to tell me Last Line: Pretty little neighbor, say! Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MY SWEETHEART, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sweetheart lays her hand in mine Last Line: The burning tears I weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Complaints NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I look about the place Last Line: "nothing grief-full grows from love." Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Prisons & Prisoners; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Convicts NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S ROUNDELAY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting and sighing in my secret muse Last Line: "wo worth the faults and follies of mine eye!" Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Women; Youth; Male-female Relations NEVER TOO LATE: THE PENITENT PALMER'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilom in the winter's rage Last Line: "man is sin, and flesh is grass!'" Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Regret; Sin; Youth; Male-female Relations NIGHT AND DAY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night above and night below Last Line: With the daybreak-stars—heigho. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Complaints; Parting NIGHT SOUNDS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight on my bed keeps me awake Last Line: A child with the moon on his face, a dog's hollow cadence. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Love - Complaints; Night; Solitude; Women; Women's Rights; Bedtime; Loneliness; Feminism NIGHT WITHOUT HOPE (REBETIKO SONG), by YANNIS PAPAIONNOU Poem Source First Line: Late nights without hope Last Line: I wonder if you think of me %or suffer for someone else Subject(s): Love - Complaints NO SECOND TROY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I blame her that she filled my days Last Line: Was there another troy for her to burn? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Love; Love - Complaints; Mythology - Classical; Troy; Women NOT I, by MYR DELL LEFLAR Poem Text First Line: Place my love at your feet? Last Line: Is doomed to die! Subject(s): Love - Complaints NOW AND THEN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And had you loved me then, my dear Last Line: Our sun is in the west. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Complaints NOW THAT THE TEARS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now that the tears of love have reached Last Line: What then shall we become! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Complaints OCTOBER ROMANCE, by LAUREN MCMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: On you I have waited Last Line: Was to be wreathed, for a moment %in your smile Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Romance ODES TO NEA; WRITTEN AT BERMUDA, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, tempt me not to love again Last Line: But must not, dare not love again. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Love - Complaints OF LOVE (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not love, nor can it be Last Line: Kil'd by a frost or by a flame. Subject(s): Love - Complaints OLD STUFF, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I go to see the play Last Line: Jill must have her pair of jacks. Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L. Subject(s): Love - Complaints ON A CORNELIAN HEART WHICH WAS BROKEN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ill-fated heart! And can it be Last Line: A fitter emblem of his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Complaints ON HIMSELFE (17), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love-sick I am, and must endure Last Line: And that is death, the end of woe. Subject(s): Love - Complaints ONLY A BLUSH, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a blush! O'er the cheek it swept Last Line: And the maiden's heart was broken. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Love - Complaints ORLANDO FURIOSO: WOMAN, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Discourteous women, nature's fairest ill Last Line: Brought for eternal pestilence to the world. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Sexism; Women ORTHODOXIES 2, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: He is spreading the lilies of jealousy on the ground, a young man Last Line: On a woman with a beaver's belly, another unexpected madness is capped Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Murder OUR CHILD, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh child, do you know, do you know Last Line: On the highest branch %we reached with you Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Children; Love - Complaints OUR THRONES DECAY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I said my pleasure shall not move Last Line: It turns to dust beneath the years. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pleasure; Time OUTWORN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the winds and the steadfast stars Last Line: Of the love, and the pain, and sin? Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Passion PAIN IN ALL LOVE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the small life that loves with tooth and nail Last Line: To the thorn'd brow that makes the heavens pale. Subject(s): Love - Complaints PASTORALE AFTER MENDELSSOHN, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Pipe, mellow reed, once more the ancient plaint Last Line: O cruel night, take pity, 'tis for love! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Reeds PATTERN, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me to my lonely pillow. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love - Complaints PERHAPS, by GUSTAVE NADAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To horse! To horse! I mount with speed Last Line: Perhaps. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations PERIMEDES THE BLACKSMITH: MADRIGAL, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swans, whose pens as white as ivory Last Line: To court, young wag, and wanton there thy fill. Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints PHILOMELA: AN ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is love once disgrac'd Last Line: Than lead a wanton life with shame. Variant Title(s): Chastity: An Ode Subject(s): Deception; Goddesses & Gods; Honesty; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Male-female Relations PHILOMELA: NEVER TOO LATE: ISABEL'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting by a river-side Last Line: "fie on love that hath no law!" Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Women PHILOMELA: PHILOMELA'S SECOND ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was frosty winter-season Last Line: Sigh'd, and rose, and went away. Subject(s): Country Life; Deception; Love - Complaints; Nature PHOENIX NEST: ARMISTICE, by THOMAS LODGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For pity, pretty eyes, surcease Last Line: But unto you pertains the loss. Subject(s): Love - Complaints PRINCESS'S SONG, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I would I had a lover who would come to me Last Line: Life a leaf which forgets the summer, in the chill time o' the year Subject(s): Love - Complaints PRISON WALLS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sweet love calls, o prison walls Last Line: Keep love away from me Subject(s): Love - Complaints PROBLEM FOR A YOUNG GIRL, by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, don't you see? I had a box of candy Last Line: Has it got to be always either one or the other? Subject(s): Love - Complaints QUEM TU, MELPOMENE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, no! You never loved the muse Last Line: The happy shepherd she has blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Poetry & Poets QUICK AND BITTER, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end was quick and bitter Last Line: We could have become a silence Subject(s): Love - Complaints QUICK AND BITTER, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end was quick and bitter Last Line: Had we remained together %we could have become a silence Subject(s): Love - Complaints QUIJOTE, by MARCO MARTOS Poem Source First Line: I've spent the whole year Last Line: That's what the girls want Subject(s): Love - Complaints RAIN, by M. C. LESKARSEN Poem Text First Line: Your kisses are like the cold Last Line: At many, many windows. . . . Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Rain RAIN, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In lima...In lima it's raining Last Line: Where I gnaw my bones for you Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Complaints REGRET, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: How strange that love should be like this Last Line: Whose love was never told? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Remorse REJECTED, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: You cast my soul to the four winds of heaven Last Line: Comes back to me in strife! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Passion RENUNCIATION, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the lifted rood thy days have hewn Last Line: For this, o love, for this! Subject(s): Divorce; Flowers; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REPLY TO SOME VERSES OF J.M.B. PIGOT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, pigot, complain of this damsel's disdain Last Line: Should lead you to curse the coquette. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Complaints RESOLVED, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you love Last Line: It is possible to be happy. Subject(s): Love - Complaints RIVALRY IN LOVE, by WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1707) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the torments, all the cares Last Line: But not another's hope. Variant Title(s): Rivals In Love Subject(s): Love - Complaints ROMANCE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went back, as to my relatives. Subject(s): Homecoming; Love - Complaints RONDEAU: 9, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For to love her for her looks lovely Last Line: For to love her. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 15 Subject(s): Love - Complaints ROSE-ANN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why didn't you say you was promised, rose-ann Last Line: As you in your scorning treat me! Subject(s): Love - Complaints SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 1. AT TEA, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kettle descants in a cosy drone Last Line: And he throws her a stray glance yearningly. Subject(s): Desire; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SATURDAY NIGHT, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We come home from the movie, and you head for the t.V. Last Line: "I am so lonely,"" I say. ""so lonely." Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Solitude; Loneliness SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harden now thy tyred hart, with more then flinty rage Last Line: Too oft, I feare, thou wilt remember me. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Variant Title(s): Second Book Of Airs: 3 Subject(s): Anger; Jealousy; Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SEPTEMBER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were so good to me, that night Last Line: The pools of this night in december Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints SESTINA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In fair provence, the land of lute and rose Last Line: Yet have we too known woe, and worn thy rose. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Love - Complaints; Provence, France SEVEN SAD SONNETS: 3. THE WANDERING ONE, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS Poem Text First Line: While he to whom her vexing thoughts still clung Last Line: Before another came that love was not. Subject(s): Love - Complaints SHADOWS: 1, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They owned their passion without shame or fear Last Line: And lovers love and perish as before. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Disappointment; Love - Complaints SHADOWS: 2, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They seemed, to those who saw them meet Last Line: When truth could bring remorse alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Variant Title(s): Forever Unconfessed Subject(s): Love - Complaints SHAKY SPECTRUM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's 'anguish' and over Last Line: Wait till the beast's asleep. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints SHARP IN MY HEART, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, o my love, and lay you down Subject(s): Lament; Love; Love - Complaints SHARP IN MY HEART, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, o my love, and lay you down Last Line: I wish I never had seen Subject(s): Lament; Love; Love - Complaints SHE WHOM THOU LOVEST, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O heart, my heart! Last Line: And yet——— and yet———! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints SI JEUNESSE SAVAIT!, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the veil from the eyes is lifted Last Line: And the strong years cheat us still. Subject(s): Love - Complaints SIGHS, by ? ROLLS Poem Text First Line: There is a sigh - that half supprest Last Line: That last, worst pang, fond love's despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Rolls, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Sighs SILENCE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curse on this tongue, that has my heart betraid Last Line: We know the flood runs still, though under-ground. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Silence SNOW ON HER LIPS, by JAIME KLEIMAN Poem Source First Line: The only eyes who meet mine on the street belong to Last Line: Fire in her gloveless hands Subject(s): Cold; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of SONG, by JOHN HUGHES (1677-1720) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you gain the tender creature Last Line: Listless charms without the heart. Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONG (1), by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That damon was in love with me Last Line: I fear I was deceiv'd Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONG (2), by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see him part the careless throng Last Line: Break, oh my heart-strings, break! Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sore wounded by love, the heron Last Line: Wildly wailing she goes alone Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Solitude SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why did perico kiss me? Last Line: Why did the traitor kiss me? Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Complaints SONG OF EVERLASTING RESENTMENT, by WANG JIAOLUAN Poem Source First Line: This song of lasting resentment - for whom is it written? Last Line: Read to the end this letter that your jiaoluan sends you Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Suicide SONG: 114, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What would ye more of me, your slave, require Last Line: That without cause causeless thus suffer'th smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Dead, The; Parting SONG: 18, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The answer that ye made to me, my dear Last Line: Wherewith free will doth true desert retain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 90 Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONG: 3, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the swan towards her death Last Line: "to cry: ""I died and you regard it not." Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 70 Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONG: 50, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye know my heart, my lady dear Last Line: Unto your own that loveth you so? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 41 Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONG: 56, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart oppressed with desperate thought Last Line: Since cruel will doth me so use. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Despair; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Singing & Singers SONG: 57, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pen, take pain a little space Last Line: My pen, I prithee write no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): To His Pen Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers SONG: 93, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full well it may be seen Last Line: That thinks it worth the pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 3, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strephonetta, why d'ye fly me Last Line: Who before the chaplain wooed. Subject(s): Cruelty; Eyes; Love - Complaints SONNET, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You jerk you didn't call me up Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONNET (1), by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have I left to do but die Last Line: I wish for thee again in vain. Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints SONNET SEQUENCE: 5, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When she's not near, then pleasure flies my life Last Line: Or polar fields of starless solitude. Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONNET TO MANON: JOY'S TREACHERY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a live joy once and pampered her Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONNET-SEQUENCE: 4, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou, love! Lo, I am crucified Last Line: Should know no more this bitter-sweet control. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONNET: 148, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O me, what eyes hath love put in my head Last Line: Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find! Variant Title(s): Blind Love Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONNET: 33, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Full many a glorious morning have I seen Last Line: Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth. Variant Title(s): Bright Day - Grey Day Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Morning SONNET: 46, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alexis, here she stayed; among these pines Last Line: Sith passed pleasures double but new woe? Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): Primitiae;spring Bereaved Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONNET: HE APPEALS AGAINST HIS BOND, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my distress love made me sign a bond Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONNET: TO ONE WHO SPOKE ILL OF HIM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is your quarrel with me, in love's name Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 6. LOVE'S DESPAIR, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Oh infinite delight when never more Last Line: We shall find rest from love,—and love's despair. Subject(s): Love - Complaints SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 156, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My galley charged with forgetfulness Last Line: And I remain despairing of the port. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): "sonnet: 19;the Lover Compareth His State To A Ship In Perilous Storm;the Lover Like To A Ship Tossed On The Sea;sonnet;sonnet: 189;rime 189;""my Galy Charged With Forgetfulnes""; Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SOROR DOLOROSA, by CATULLE MENDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay. Light not the lamp. But let us slake Last Line: Thro' these close-woven locks of sombre brown. Subject(s): Love - Complaints SORROWING LOVE, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And again the flowers are come Last Line: Come away! Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Love - Complaints SORROWS OF LOVE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sober wi sad truths the laughing mirth Last Line: Then laid her knitting down and shook her head %and stoopt to stir the fire and talk of bed Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Villages SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 101, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My poor heart Last Line: The sickness of which I die Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Sickness SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 105, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Woe is me, for I am robbed Last Line: Withered, and its colour gone Subject(s): Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 107, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Go, join the other one Last Line: My garden will sow Subject(s): Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 109, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Loaded with hopes Last Line: Dead with disillusion Subject(s): Disillusion; Grief; Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 110, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Weep, my eyes, weep Last Line: That a man should cry Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 111, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To the sea I must go Last Line: In a wind-mill Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 114, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How would you have a bird Last Line: If you take away my hope? Subject(s): Hearts; Hope; Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 132, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Loving is up hill Last Line: Though it be hard work Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Sacrifices SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 137, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You did not want when I wanted Last Line: Just as I did before you Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 145, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As we came down towards the valley Last Line: Tis my face that guards my body Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Self-consciousness SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 156, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You say that you do not love me Last Line: The first the wind blows away Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 17, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Seeing that you do not love me Last Line: I stayed to hear it Subject(s): Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 51, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You loved me once; you forgot me Last Line: Many a velvet dress Subject(s): Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 78, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Close to you nor far from you Last Line: Far from you because I die Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pain SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 82, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Last evening, late in the evening Last Line: And a path so tempting? Subject(s): Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 92, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Farewell. I go without seeing you Last Line: My arms without having held you Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Complaints STANZAS. WRITTEN BETWEEN DOVER AND CALAIS, IN JULY, 1792, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bounding billow, cease thy motion Last Line: Now we part -- to meet no more! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Sea Voyages STONE APPLES, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid the shimmer of lamps and the redowa's dash Last Line: "mid the masquerade of flutes!" Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Nature STOP, SHADOW OF MY ELUSIVE BELOVED, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If I fashion a prison for you in my fantasy Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Desire; Fantasy; Hearts; Love - Complaints STORMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: She fears not me Last Line: Back to my breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Storms; Worship STRONG BOND, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: I grew %for you Last Line: And then...You'll be mine more than ever Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Complaints; Thorns STRUGNELL'S BARGAIN, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My true love hath my heart and I have hers Last Line: Therefore do I revoke my opening line: %my love can keep her heart and I'll have mine Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Poetry And Poets; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) SUDDENLY, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly flickered a flame Last Line: God, the slow withering! Subject(s): Love - Complaints SUMMER NEAR THE RIVER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have carried my pillow to the windowsill Last Line: It seems, for a moment, the river ceases flowing. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fidelity; Love - Complaints; Women; Women's Rights; Faithfulness; Constancy; Feminism TALKING RICHARD WILSON BLUES, BY RICHARD CLAY WILSON, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You might as well take a razor Last Line: Ultrahigh frequency station. And it goes like this Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Male-female Relationships TANTALOS, by PAULUS SILENTIARIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mouth to mouth joined we lie, her naked breasts Last Line: She has given, half to prudence: %I die between Alternate Author Name(s): Paul The Silent; Paul The Silentiary Subject(s): Love - Complaints TELL HER, SWEET THRUSH!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O thou sweet bird in the hazel tops Last Line: And love for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Pity TELL ME SOME WAY, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, you who love me not, tell me some way Last Line: Living, you break my heart, so would you dead! Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE AFFECTIONATE SHEPHERD; OR COMPLAINT OF DAPHNIS, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce had the morning starre hid from the light Last Line: Plus fellus quam mellis amor. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Variant Title(s): The Tears Of An Affectionate Shepherd Sick For Love Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Shephers And Sherperdesses THE AGE OF WISDOM, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Pretty page, with the dimpled chin Last Line: Dipping my nose in the gascon wine. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE ANACREONTICS: 9, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! This fane is cupid's own Last Line: Injur'd love's avengers be. Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 5. PRELUDE. REJECTED, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps, she's dancing somewhere now Last Line: But, oh, how much a heart can hold. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE APPEAL TO HAROLD, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haro! Haro! / judge now betwixt this woman and me Last Line: King! Variant Title(s): Haro Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE ASSIGNATION, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He said he would meet her but she saw him / not Last Line: And tongue-tied shame that mad excuses muttered. Subject(s): Affliction; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE BALANCE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Must I endure with nothing to forgive Last Line: Be but the amends I make. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE BEE LOVER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: He comes with a song Last Line: On the face he has kissed. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE BLEEDING HAND; OR THE SPRIG OF EGLANTINE GIVEN TO A MAID, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this bleeding hand of mine Last Line: Many thorns to be in love. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE BLIGHT OF LOVE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many long years ago, I loved a youth Last Line: And to forget my youth, in vain I seek. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE BLOSSOMING OF THE SOLITARY DATE-TREE. A LAMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the blaze of a tropical sun the mountain peaks are the Last Line: Why was I made for love and love denied to me? Subject(s): Date Trees; Love - Complaints; Mothers THE BLOW RETURNED, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I struck you once, I do remember well Last Line: I struck you once—and now you're lying dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE BLUNDER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The girls in my vicinity Last Line: That was the fatal blunder. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDGE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went to-night by the wooden bridge Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE BROKEN HEART, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is stark mad, who ever says / that he hath been in love an hour Last Line: But after one such love, can love no more. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE BROKEN HEART, by JOHN FORD (1586-1639) Poem Text First Line: Our scene is sparta. He whose best of art Last Line: The broken heart may be pieced-up again. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage - Forced; Marriage - Arranged THE BROKEN-HEARTED GARDENER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I'm a broken-hearted gardener, and don't know what to do" Last Line: And honour my death with a double encore Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening;love - Complaints THE CATALOGUE, by CHARLES MORRIS Poem Text First Line: O, that's what you mean, now, a bit of a song Last Line: Just to keep us a-going and season the wine. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE CHRONICLE; A BALLAD, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margarita first possest / if I remember well, my breast Last Line: Whom god grant long to reign! Variant Title(s): The Lover's Chronicle Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Women THE CLINGING ARMS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Push off the clinging arms! Last Line: By trusting its power to go alone. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE COMPLAINT OF A LOVER, by ANNE KILLIGREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See'st thou yonder craggy rock Last Line: My passion either sooth, or school. Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE CONCEALMENT, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No; to what purpose should I speak? Last Line: Twas only love destroy'd the gentle youth. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE CONFESSION, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: We were both wrong Last Line: And both are right. Subject(s): Doubt; Errors; Forgiveness; Love - Complaints; Skepticism; Mistakes; Fallacies; Clemency THE CONTRETEMPS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom Last Line: Let peace lie on lulled lips: I will not say. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE CRUEL MAID, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And cruell maid, because I see Last Line: Love kill'd this man. No more but so. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE CRUEL MISTRESS, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, o love, why celia, smooth Last Line: Must backward, like the sacred tongue, be read.' Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE DAMPE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, and doctors know not why Last Line: In that you'have odds enough of any man. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE DANGER OF DISCONTENT, by E.-G. BAYFIELD Poem Text First Line: Oh, soon may that holiday period come Last Line: "than that which is caus'd by the man of your heart." Alternate Author Name(s): Cooper, Laura+(1) Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Parents; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood THE DEBTOR, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh, this same life so fresh and gay Last Line: And you are with him, day by day. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Debt; Love - Complaints THE DESPAIRING LOVER, by JOHN GLANVILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Break, break, my foolish heart Last Line: Die all at once, and in one mighty grief expire. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE DESPAIRING LOVER, by WILLIAM HAMILTON OF BANGOUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the poor shepherd's mournful fate Last Line: And die in sight of heaven. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE DISCARDED LOVER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O love is illusion and passion a snare Last Line: If you would have peace, with them you must part. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Passion THE DISTANCE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've followed thee a year at least Last Line: The wounded heart ne're turnes to wound again. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE DOUBLES, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider how love works us wrong Last Line: And love is but another name for sorrow! Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE DREAM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke to find my pillow wet Last Line: Was I thy captive all o'erthrown? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness THE DREAM, by EDWARD SHERBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shadow, faithless as my sun Last Line: With a delusive dream. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE DREAM HUNT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lady rides a-hunting Last Line: My heart and makes away. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Hunting; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Hunters; Male-female Relations THE EMERALD RING; A SUPERSTITION, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a gem which hath the power to show Last Line: My heart is broken -- not estranged! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love - Complaints; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces THE END OF THE WAY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much have I seen by the winding way Last Line: Jesu, I am tired. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Love - Complaints THE EWE-BUCHTIN'S BONNIE, by GRISELL BAILLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ewe-buchtin's bonnie, baith e'enin' and morn Last Line: But alas, my dear heart, all my sighing's for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Baillie, Grizel Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE FAIR TRAVELLER, by JOHN HUGHES (1677-1720) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In young astrea's sparkling eye Last Line: But leaves the forest in a flame. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE FAITHFUL LOVERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I've been away from her three years, - about that" Last Line: "no, I replied, ""for I am married too." Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE FEARFUL TRUST, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a fearful trust, the trust of love Last Line: Its childhood is departed. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE FERRY, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of marsh-mallows my boat is made Last Line: So long you tarry at the crossing. Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fear; Ferry Boats; Love - Complaints THE FORFEIT, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Only for this, dear heart, only for this Last Line: Do I regret. . . . Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE FORSYTHE SAGA: JON'S SONG, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could make a little song Last Line: I'd let is fly and sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE FRIEND IN LOVE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy is the wretch who feels Last Line: Deceived, despised, abused, forsaken! Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE GIRL AT THE NATIVE DOG, by G. M. SMITH Poem Text First Line: There was a gay young cattle-man Last Line: On that girl at native dog. Alternate Author Name(s): Grey, Steele Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE HEART-BREAKING, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It gave a pitteous groan, and so it broke Last Line: My monarch-love into a tyrant-state. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE HONEYBEE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You do everything, melissa, just the way Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Love - Complaints; Pentastichs; Beekeeping; Bugs THE HUNTER'S WIFE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head is sick and my heart is faint Last Line: As beats in my heart to-day! Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE HUNTING OF CUPID, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What thing is love (for wel I wot) love is a thing Last Line: Some prettie lye he coined. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE IMPERFECT LOVER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never asked you to be perfect, did I? Last Line: Unvanquished in my atmosphere of devils. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE JILTED NYMPH, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm jilted, forsaken, outwitted Last Line: When I'm wooed, and married, and all. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE LAUREL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fling down the laurel from her golden hair Last Line: And last, farewell! Oh, my false love, to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE LOST THRILL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grow so weary, someway, of all Last Line: A love ever poured through lips of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Complaints THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 51, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you take me because you loved me? Last Line: To experiment on my heart Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 55, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is too long to the sleepless Last Line: On the twisted paths of love? Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE LOVER PLEADS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I had guineas many a one Last Line: The last word said, and all over. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Money THE MESSAGE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Send home my [long] strayed eyes to me Last Line: Or prove as false as thou art now. Subject(s): Deception; Eyes; Love - Complaints; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE MISTAKE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Twas wrong-but can you blame me? Last Line: "I thought your cheeks were roses!" Subject(s): Emotions; Errors; Love - Complaints; Mistakes; Fallacies THE NEW HUSBANDMAN, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother that ploughs the furrow I late Last Line: Have honest grain within thy barns to keep. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE ORPHARION: ORPHEUS' SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He that did sing the motions of the stars Last Line: To take in love and lose it with a wink. Subject(s): Deception; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PARADOX, by JEANNE OLDFIELD POTTER Poem Text First Line: I love you, dear, when you are far Last Line: That absence is the tie that binds. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE PAST, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep for the love that fate forbids Last Line: To dream, despair, and die! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE PITY OF LOVE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pity beyond all telling Last Line: Threaten the head that I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints THE PRISON, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the prisoner of my love of you Last Line: Alas, I only fear to be set free! Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE PROTESTATION, by SELWYN IMAGE Poem Text First Line: Dear eyes, set deep within the shade Last Line: Whence for my soul all grace doth spring? Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stood a damsel very early Subject(s): Jews; Marriage; Sons-in-law; Love - Complaints; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE REAL YOU, by EVA LOUISE ZOLLER Poem Text First Line: I told you that I loved you Last Line: Will the you that's left be you? Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Virtue THE REGRET, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems to me, dearest, if you were dead Last Line: Sometimes you did not love me when you could. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Regret THE RELAPSE, by JOHN SHEFFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like children in a starry night Last Line: A sad relapse we ne'er recover. Alternate Author Name(s): Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE RELAPSE, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O turn away those cruel eyes Last Line: Both think thee poor and cruel. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE RESOLUTION, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The devil take those foolish men Last Line: Tis all mankind must make a salique law. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE REVISITATION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay awake at night-time Last Line: Love is lame at fifty years. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Time THE RIDE ROUND THE PARAPET, by FRIEDRICH RUECKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'I was not born to mope at home in loneliness' Last Line: Wooden lady eleanora von alleyne! Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Complaints; Pain; Selfishness; Solitude; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness THE RIVAL, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She failed me at the tryst Last Line: "you love her for my sake." Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE RIVAL CELESTIAL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, wilt thou never leave my love alone? Last Line: And she is all my world -- is all my world! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; God THE SELF BANISHED (2), by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not that I love you less Last Line: The vow I made to love you too. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE SELF-CRUEL, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cast off, for shame, ungentle maid Last Line: Thou wouldst not pity, pity thee. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pity THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: JANUARY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shepheards boye (no better doe him call) Last Line: Whose hanging heads did seeme his carefull case to weepe. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): January; Love - Complaints; Winter THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: JUNE, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, collin, here the place whose pleasaunt syte Last Line: And wett your tender lambes that by you trace. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): June; Love - Complaints THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 35, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Alas,' quoth she, 'what hapless woe is mine Last Line: And my life's crown will be a crown of sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Emotions; Hearts; Love - Complaints THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 36, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Yet, of his clemency as belted knight Last Line: How might I bear that ever-during shame?' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 54, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The sweetest dream foreshadows an awaking Last Line: So thro' the world they twain together fared. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Passion THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 65, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Twixt scylla and charybdis now of fate Last Line: What pity won gave love but one tear less. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Complaints THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 67, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: His lady leal wist that her lord was changed Last Line: His alienated love the more constrain'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE SOFTNESS OF SYBARIS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lydia, by the gods above Last Line: ... Tell me, lydia, what's the matter? Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE SORROW OF LOVE (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves Last Line: No occasion to. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE SUPPLIANT, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the poplars o'er the sacred pool Last Line: But hold out both her hands. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE THREE SISTERS, by ACHILLE MILLIEN Poem Text First Line: As daylight passes there go three lasses Last Line: "I who know,"" saith the elder, ""am dying away." Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Sisters THE TOOTH FAIRY, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each time another tooth falls out Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE UNWISE CHOICE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two young men, when I was poor Last Line: And saw th' two young men at my door! Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE VISIT, by A LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "by absence, and unkind neglect" Last Line: Short intervals of sweet content; / but lasting hours of woe Alternate Author Name(s): A Lady Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE WAGER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five years ago in this same garden space Last Line: Claire. Why not a woman's love? Subject(s): Gambling; Kisses; Love - Complaints; Love - Nature Of; Wagering; Betting THE WAITING WOMAN, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A woman is waiting for you, my lad Last Line: And the eyes of the wise are sad! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Women THE WAKEFUL NIGHTINGALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "for love that makes him wakeful, makes him sing" Subject(s): Birds;cupid;love - Complaints;nightingales; Eros THE WATCHER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long road and the low shore, a Last Line: Ah, me, but the night's long—and every night the same! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints THE WORST OF TIMES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two men agree to swap wives Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WOUNDED HEART, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come bring your sampler, and with art Last Line: For me. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE WRONGS OF LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, how bitter are the wrongs of love Last Line: For which there is no healing. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Complaints THERE IS A TIME, by J. C. B. Poem Text First Line: Ah, love, thy sweet, strange grace Last Line: Upon love's own true way. Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints THIEVES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lovers in the act dispense Last Line: In a single heart that grieves %for lost honour among thieves Subject(s): Love - Complaints THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 11, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If love loves truth, then women do not love Last Line: To have fair women false than none at all. Subject(s): Women; Love - Complaints; Deception THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 27. LOVE, AND NEVER FEAR, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never love unless you can / bear with all the faults of man Last Line: Then like, and love, and never fear! Variant Title(s): Advice To A Girl Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Complaints; Masculinity (psychology); Trust THOUGH WORDS OF ICE BE SPOKEN , by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And yet we cannot slay Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Survival THOUGHTFUL NIGHTS, by GEORGE GRANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thoughtful nights, and restless waking Last Line: Fierce, immortal ecstasy. Alternate Author Name(s): Grenville, George; Lansdowne, Baron Subject(s): Jealousy; Love - Complaints THRO' THE PASS OF LLANBERIS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: You...At the end of the valley! Last Line: Must I wrestle with despair! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness THROUGH AGONY: 1, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night, through the eternity of night, Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TO A COLD BEAUTY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, wouldst thou heiress be Last Line: It is no snow, but flow'r of may! Subject(s): Cold; Love - Complaints; Winter TO A PENIS, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Let us ignore the government suspicion Last Line: You bury yourself direct %in profound abundance Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Reproductive System TO A YOUNG MURDERESS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair yellow murderess, whose gilded head Last Line: Nay, kiss me, sweet! Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Murder; Youth; Dead, The TO AELIA; ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor antiquated slut, forbear Last Line: The penance expiates the sin. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Penance TO ANNE (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, anne! Your offences to me have been grievous Last Line: Be false, my sweet anne, when I cease to adore you! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Houson, Anne; Love - Complaints TO BACCHUS, A CANTICLE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither dost thou whorry me Last Line: Having all, injoy not one. Subject(s): Love - Complaints TO CELIA (WHO REFUSES TO BE DRAWN INTO AN ARGUMENT), by E. H. LACON WATSON Poem Text First Line: Dear, if you carelessly agree Last Line: Dear, if you care! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Arguments; Disagreements TO CHLOE; AN APOLOGY FOR GOING INTO THE COUNTRY, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe, we must not always be in heaven Last Line: That keeps alive the sacred fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Absence; Love - Complaints; Separation; Isolation TO DELIA: 6, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair Last Line: My muse had slept, and none had known my mind. Variant Title(s): Beauty, Time And Love (1) Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints TO HIS FORSAKEN MISTRESS, by ROBERT AYTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair Last Line: Hath brought thee to be loved by none. Alternate Author Name(s): Aytoun, Robert Variant Title(s): Inconstancy Reproved;fair And Unworthy;the Inconstant Mistress Subject(s): Love - Complaints TO HIS LUTE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My lute, awake! Perform the last / labor that thou and I shall waste Last Line: My lute, be still, for I have done. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 66;the Lover Complaineth The Unkindness Of His Love;song: 12 Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Lutes TO HIS SCORNFUL MISTRESS, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love in's first infant days had's wardrobe full Last Line: And she his murd'ress is, who now is coy. Subject(s): Disdain; Love - Complaints; Scorn TO MICHEL, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: Before I found you, michel Last Line: My life is filled—with pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery TO MY LOVE, by THE AMOROUS LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "when, in my fond embraces fast confined" Last Line: "no faithless maxims to my breast impart, / to change the nature of my breaking heart" Alternate Author Name(s): The Amorous Lady Subject(s): Love - Complaints TO ONE WHO SAID I MUST NOT LOVE, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bid the fond mother spill her infant's blood Last Line: But love each day renews th' torturing scene of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Love - Complaints TO ONE WHO WALKS THE HIGHROAD, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think no thought of her Last Line: What is any woman's whim? Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TO SLEEP; A SONG, by ELIZABETH MOODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep expand thy downy wing Last Line: That parts my soul from love—and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth Subject(s): Calm; Grief; Love - Complaints; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sorrow; Sadness TO SWEET MEAT, SOUR SAUCE; AN IMITATION OF THEOCRITUS OR ANACREON, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As cupid from the bees their honey stole Last Line: Honey to's mouth, but torment to his heart.' Subject(s): Food & Eating; Love - Complaints TO SYCAMORES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sick of love; o let me lie Last Line: You sigh for love, as well as I. Subject(s): Love - Complaints TO THE BOUND CAPTIVE IN THE LOUVRE: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yea! All the beauty of sorrow, like a crown Last Line: Immortals thralled for ever to the dead. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Complaints; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO THE QUEEN OF THE WAX DOLLS, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the old church yard I told you all Last Line: A skeptic might believe it! Subject(s): Change; Indifference; Love - Complaints TO THE UNIMPLORED BELOVED, by EDWARD SHANKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remain for me, chaste, unapproached, unstirred Last Line: Only an image, neither lover nor wife. Subject(s): Love - Complaints TOMORROW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Our loved ones departed still live with us yet Last Line: As morning breaks forevermore. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Complaints; Separation; Isolation; Parting TOO LATE, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! Thou art fair, and I had lov'd Last Line: From love untimelier than ours. Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus Subject(s): Love - Complaints TOOTH FAIRY, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each time another tooth falls out Last Line: I only get a dime Subject(s): Love - Complaints TOTEM, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: How he tried to steal my words Last Line: A foaming stripped tiger becomes my totem Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Fights; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AFTER ALL SUFFERING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After all suffering, after all weariness and denial Last Line: I pass all doors, and am where I would be. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AS IT HAPPENED, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cross-legged in a low tailor's den, gasping for breath Last Line: Sings all day to its friend whether present or absent. Subject(s): Freedom; Love - Complaints; Liberty TRAIN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every time I take a trip Last Line: We're gone in a flash! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Commuters; Love - Complaints; Railroads; Women TRIOLET, by BERNICE SWANSON Poem Text First Line: Cupid is a careless lad Last Line: With his bow and quiver. Subject(s): Cupid; Love - Complaints; Eros TRUE LOVE BLUES, by NIKKI GRIMES Poem Source First Line: Love means putting others first Last Line: Proves you still ain't figured that out Subject(s): African Americans; Love; Love - Complaints TRUE OR FICKLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Who would not be a poet, when Last Line: Who wants that moulting bird? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Complaints TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 14, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flower of the cypress, little bitter bloom Last Line: Tight round my breast to kill the heart beneath. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Love - Complaints; Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 5, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sowed the field of love with many seeds Last Line: So let me sleep at last and sleep for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Tuscany, Italy TWICE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took my heart in my hand Last Line: But shall not question much. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Women TWO BATHS: 2, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light roused us from the depths of our separate longings Last Line: Past the horizon, writing you out of existence. Subject(s): Activity; Baths & Bathing; Loss; Love - Complaints; Memory; Exercise TWO SERENADES: 1. ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late on christmas eve, in the street alone Last Line: She did not come. Subject(s): Christmas; Love - Complaints; Nativity, The TWO SERENADES: 2. A YEAR LATER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I skimmed the strings; I sang quite low Last Line: Sick I withdrew. Subject(s): Love - Complaints UNBELIEVABLE, by EDITH GRACE BERKNESS Poem Text First Line: No broken hearts for me, I bragged Last Line: "you flaunt upon your sleeve!" Subject(s): Love - Complaints UNDER THE SHEET, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a terrible night! Does the night Last Line: A shape and a sheet. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Night; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the time you swear you're his Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Lies UNSATISFIED, by ZOE JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Your love is so thin and pale Last Line: Floating heavenward on eagle wings! Subject(s): Love - Complaints UNTIMELY LOVE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, throbbing heart, nor let us shed one tear Last Line: Nipped by the cold touch of untoward fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Complaints VAIN COUNSEL, by MARIAN STORM Poem Text First Line: She is very foolish if she loves a sailor Last Line: But she says she never meant to; it happened unbeknown. Subject(s): Advice; Love - Complaints; Sailing & Sailors VARIATIONS: 13, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue waves are driven by wind Last Line: The querulous praise will soon be mute. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Death; Love - Complaints; Dead, The VESSELS, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: We are all vessels,' said the potter; and, as I smiled Last Line: Because the highest ardor has that tremendous whiteness' Subject(s): Emptiness; Love - Complaints VILLANELLE OF RAINFALL, by ELMER GUSTAFSON Poem Text First Line: He will not come again Last Line: Merciless falls the rain. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Rain; Sorrow; Sadness VINEGAR, by AILI JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Love has a way Last Line: Sometimes the chablis %turns to vinegar Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Vinegar VIOLET: 3. DECLARATION, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Child, I will give you rings to wear Last Line: Because I have no heart to give you. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love - Complaints WAITING FOR THE GRAPES, by WILLIAM MAGINN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That I love thee, charming maid, I a thousand Last Line: Ah me! Subject(s): Love - Complaints WARM DAYS IN JANUARY, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It has never been so easy to cry Subject(s): City & Town Life; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Ancestors & Ancestry; Hotels; Male-female Relations; Heritage; Heredity; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses WEDDING OF THE LADY THERESA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas when the fifth alphonso in leon held his sway Last Line: There she, an aged saint, expired, -- there sleeps she with the dead Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death; Lament; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Revenge WHAT THIS STANDS FOR, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plum bushes unable to bear Subject(s): Love - Complaints WHEEL, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Oh, like a little puppy on the floor I slept Last Line: You give a damn what happens to me Subject(s): Love - Complaints WHEN LOVE GOES, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, I am sick of love Last Line: "he hid them all from thee." Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Complaints WHOM WE WORSHIP, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have the love of lips and eyes Last Line: In its lone ecstasy. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Solitude; Loneliness WHY DID SHE MARRY ANOTHER?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Your eyes are magic worth a lakh of rupees Last Line: To me she's false, to another she is true! Subject(s): Love - Complaints WITHOUT PASSION WITHOUT COMPASSION, by OSCAR HAHN Poem Source First Line: The destruction of lover by lover %has always been common Last Line: Now I look for your love %in whatever passes by my door Subject(s): Love - Complaints WOMAN IS OF MAN THE BEST, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That sometimes cures, and sometimes kills Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Women WORST OF TIMES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two men agree to swap wives Last Line: These pains in the asses Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Love - Complaints; Marriage WOUNDED, by JESSAMINE SLAUGHTER BURGUM Poem Text First Line: Your hand would never hold a sword Last Line: And when you need me - I'll forget Subject(s): Love - Complaints WOUNDS OF LOVE, by DAVID ONKINERAH Poem Source First Line: I heard your voice, my love, and all my senses throbbed Subject(s): Love - Complaints WRITTEN AT SEA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is my quarrel with thee, beautiful sea Last Line: Or bear thy beauty in my misery. Subject(s): Beauty; Hate; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Quarrels; Male-female Relations; Arguments; Disagreements YOUR LOVE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reminds me of the sense Last Line: Of hotel room wash basins Subject(s): Love - Complaints YOUTH, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She paved the way with perfume sweet Last Line: She left me to grow old alone. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Love - Complaints; Love - Loss Of |
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