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First Line: Someone said that love
Last Line: Of your footprints
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A LOVER AND HIS MISTRESS, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, lucinda, since my fate
Last Line: Not to know what to say.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


A DREAM, by MINA MERRITT-SAEGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath the singing boughs and sacred stars
Last Line: The perfume of love's immortality.
Subject(s): Immortality; Love; Love - Nature Of


A KNOWLEDGE, by FLORENCE S. PAGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I do not even love you any more
Last Line: Yet I shall not forget you till I die.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


A LOVE SONG, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the fierce flames of love I'm in a sad taking
Last Line: Wont let a poor man go about his business.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


A LOVE TEST, by CARL HERLOZSSOHN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet, do you ask me if you love or no?
Last Line: Believe me, darling, that your heart is mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Herlosssohn, Carl
Subject(s): Doubt; Love - Nature Of; Romance; Skepticism


A LOVE'S LIFE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas springtime of the day and year
Last Line: Or for love dead?
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


A MADRIGAL, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is a day, sweetheart, shining and bright
Last Line: Love is a life, sweetheart, ending in death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


A PRAYER, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: May the strong arms of god be ever round about thee!
Last Line: "die not thou for her,—never,—for I can."
Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Prayer; Religion; Theology


A REJECTED LOVER, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You 'never loved me, ada. These slow words
Last Line: "thinking, ""he loved me well!"" clasp hands, and so pass by."
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


A REMINISCENCE, by OLIVER MARBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas long ago - but I remember
Last Line: She left him too, sir — gad, she did!
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Women


A SONG TO PHILLIS, by WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1707)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Phillis, we not grieve that nature
Last Line: But in hopes to make him kind.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


A SONNET. PLATONIC LOVE, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chaste cynthia bids me love, but hope no more
Last Line: My love's immortal then, and mistress too.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 2, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, dear one, ask me not to leave thee yet
Last Line: Tis all I ask of thee, this little grace.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


AD ASTRA: 16, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nature is like a woman greatly loved
Last Line: No answering love-light to our own replies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of; Women


AD ASTRA: 19, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love, at the highest, asks for no reward
Last Line: He swings his burning thurible of spice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sacrifices


AD ASTRA: 26, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nature and love are sisters that allied
Last Line: When the great sun dies out upon the deep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


AD ASTRA: 27, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: For what is nature with no comrade by
Last Line: The worship of twin souls at nature's shrine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of


AD ASTRA: 3, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O gentle love! Sooth whisperer to mankind
Last Line: Cradling the great deeps of eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Nature Of; Nature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


AD ASTRA: 35, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O nature, tho' thy beauty never wanes
Last Line: And all the stings of doubt at last remove.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


AD ASTRA: 38, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O ladye mine, I seek thee thro' the world
Last Line: The lark soars, choiring in the uncharted blue.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


AD ASTRA: 70, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mid nature's solitudes we needs must feel
Last Line: Burdens more sad than human hearts may hold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Relationships


AD ASTRA: 8, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Can nature still the craving of the soul?
Last Line: That stirs the spirit and unto healing moves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


AFFINITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You and I have found the secret way
Last Line: Is a living music in us yet.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Time; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AFRICAN DANCER, by LUIS PALES MATOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your beauty is deep and comforting
Last Line: Like the sand in your quicksand beds
Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of; Negritude (literary Movement)


AIR CASTLES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'd build an air castle for thee, love, and me
Last Line: This world would but usher love's eternity.
Subject(s): Castles; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Passion


AMANTES, AMENTES, by HENRY HARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lovers, lunatics. There must be truth
Last Line: A thing I realize I ought not to!
Subject(s): Fools; Love - Nature Of; Youth; Idiots


AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 1. ENVOI, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All that remains for me
Last Line: For ever, for your sake.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 2. WHY?, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why is it, since I know you now
Last Line: Knowing you, I believe you now?
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


AMORES [THE LOVES]: BOOK 1, ELEGY 9. EVERY LOVER IS A SOLDIER, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All lovers are campaigners, and cupid has his wars
Last Line: Love is the soul of action, the soul of enterprise
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


AMORIS VICTIMA: 2, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All that I know of love I learnt of you
Last Line: You gathered from the very hands of love.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


AMY'S CRUELTY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair amy of the terraced house!
Last Line: Till doted on for ever!'
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Love - Nature Of; Kindness; Unkindness; Male-female Relations


AN ODE UPON A QUESTION WHETHER LOVE SHOULD CONTINUE FOREVER, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Having interr'd her infant-birth
Last Line: Their ravish'd spirits did possess.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Variant Title(s): Ode Upon Question Moved: Whether Love Should Continue Ever
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth


AN OLD STORY, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like an old story's need for detail
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


ANACTORIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My life is bitter with thy love; thine eyes
Last Line: Thick darkness and the insuperable sea.
Subject(s): Beauty; Kisses; Life; Love - Nature Of


ANALYZE LOVE, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Analyze passion; it resolves to this
Last Line: And still once more return to earthly pain.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


ANGELIC LOVE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Angelic love that stoops with heavenly lips
Last Line: O thou of mortal visions most divine!
Subject(s): Angels; Love - Nature Of


ANSWER TO 'SONG' BY M. W. M., by THOMAS STANLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wert thou by all affections sought
Last Line: I love thee, 'cause thou canst deny.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


ANSWER TO SUCKLING'S SONG ( OUT UPON IT ), by TOBY MATTHEWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Say, but did you love so long?
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Suckling, John (1609-1642)


APPROXIMATELY FOREVER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But she wasn't holding that snake
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Change; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships


APRIL, by LOUIS GINSBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Even when all my body sleeps
Last Line: My dust will dream of you!
Subject(s): April; Graves; Love - Nature Of; Tombs; Tombstones


ARCHAEOLOGY OF LOVE, by RICHARD MURPHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have netted this dawn
Last Line: To a grove of suns
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


ARMOR, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You cannot hurt me any more
Last Line: Oh, god, I love the old way best!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


ARTIFICE DISOWNED BY LOVE, by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot think love thrives by artifice
Last Line: Doth show its wish at once, and means no more!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


AS SLEEP IS, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: As sleep is to a day
Last Line: A tune—and then, to smile.
Subject(s): Day; Life; Love; Love - Nature Of; Sleep


ASH ODE, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I saw you ahead I ran two blocks
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


ASPARAGUS, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This afternoon a man leans over
Last Line: You're very lucky
Subject(s): Asparagus; Love - Nature Of; Vegetables


ASPARAGUS, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This afternoon a man leans over
Last Line: Listen, I say to him, %you're very lucky
Subject(s): Asparagus; Love - Nature Of; Vegetables


AT A GATE ON THE HILL, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At a gate on the hill in the parting hour
Last Line: "in a deathless tryst with thee!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Memory


AUTUMN MESSAGES, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flowers that as they fade fling parting kisses tender
Last Line: That I should care for thee!
Subject(s): Autumn; Farewell; Love - Nature Of; Seasons; Fall; Parting


BALLAD, by SONIA SANCHEZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgive me if I laugh
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Youth


BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'I WOULD GIVE TWENTY POUND', by PATRICK CAREY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's no woman, but I'm caught
Last Line: And for th' asking she shall have it.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


BE STILL, O YE WINDS!, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be still, o ye winds! And attentive, ye swains!
Last Line: Gives joy to the night, and enlivens the day.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Love - Nature Of; Joy; Delight


BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, by MURRAY L. MARSHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is because I love you I am sad
Last Line: And I be poor -- were you not cause for living.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Sorrow; Sadness


BEDOUIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O love is like an untamed
Last Line: To lash the mad life out of it!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of


BETWEEN US, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does my blood need a motive
Last Line: Out of the same matter?
Variant Title(s): I Have Already Written You Off
Subject(s): Blood; Love - Nature Of


BIANCA: 6. SLEEP, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As if tired out with kisses
Last Line: And fell asleep upon my breast.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sleep


BIRD, by MINNIE MARKHAM KERR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love is a little trembling bird
Last Line: Nor half so beautiful as its song.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


BLAZES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man come home with my brothers
Last Line: I thought of a burning bush
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Fire; Love - Nature Of; Youth


BROKEN WINGS, by FABIO FIALLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The prison? It is very sad
Last Line: My cell to paradise!
Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Nature Of


BROTHER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could not tell you though I were crucified
Last Line: Aye, and when my need was, brother through the night!
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Family Life; Love - Nature Of; Men; Relationships; Relatives


BROTHERLY LOVE; OR, THE SITE OF KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a sweet traditionary tale
Last Line: Each with the golden sheaves within his arms.
Subject(s): Brothers; Churches; Family Life; Harvest; Love - Nature Of; Half-brothers; Cathedrals; Relatives


BUT TODAY, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Somewhere the tree is growing
Last Line: I live my hour.
Subject(s): Life; Love - Nature Of; Togetherness


BUTTERFLIES UNDER PERSIMMON, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a woman
Last Line: And wished I could be like that
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Desire; Envy


BY CELIA'S ARBOUR, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By celia's arbour all the night
Last Line: But tears of sorrow shed by me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


CAELIA: SONNETS: 10, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To get a love and beauty so divine
Last Line: Fortune my mistress, or you not so fair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time


CATALOGUED, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is love like?' you ask. I guess
Last Line: That love is you!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


CATCH AND RELEASE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I should have remembered
Last Line: Now numbered among my losses
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of


CAVATINA, by JEFFREY LEVINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It may be there's a time of day when everything
Subject(s): Beaujolais Wine; Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Love - Nature Of; Music & Musicians; Obsessions


CHAMBER MUSIC: 27, by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though I thy mithridates were
Last Line: Ever so little falsity.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


CHAMBER MUSIC: 28, by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gentle lady, do not sing
Last Line: Love is aweary now.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of; Singing & Singers; Songs


CHAMBER MUSIC: 30, by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love came to us in time gone by
Last Line: The ways that we shall go upon.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


CHARACTER OF LOVE SEEN AS SEARCH FOR THE LOST, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, the woman; I, the man; this, the world
Last Line: Many desperate arms about us and the things we know
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


CLINGING, by GRACE SPEER FLICKINGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love to think a plumy cloud
Last Line: That love can never die!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


COMPARISON OF LOVE TO A STREAM FALLING FROM THE ALPS, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From these high hills as when a spring doth fall
Last Line: The first estew is remedy alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 95;epigram: 10
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


CONQUEST, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have not conquered me, it is the surge
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


CONSOLATION, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I watch at eve thy bright inquisitive eyes
Last Line: But with honour, truth, and destiny not slain.
Subject(s): Consolation; Hearts; Love - Nature Of


COUNSEL, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, like ulysses
Last Line: Love is unreturning!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON HIS LOVE AFTER DEATH, by FRANCIS KYNASTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let lovers that like honey-flies
Last Line: Lives, though not in thine eyes, yet in my heart.
Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The


DARK CHAMBER, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brain forgets but the blood will remember
Last Line: The music, the silence - these will remain
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


DAUGHTERS OF JOY, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long, subtle-floating, the choir
Last Line: While man knows not of love, and cannot curb his fever.
Subject(s): London; Love - Nature Of; Women


DEATH AS THE TEACHER OF LOVE-LORE, by FRANK T. MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas in mid autumn, and the woods
Last Line: Learning from death that love can never die.
Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The


DECIMA: 1, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's no love like hopeless love
Last Line: Carried me from earth to heaven.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


DEGREES OF LOVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When your eyes opened to my eyes
Last Line: Hatred of love for loving me.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


DID YOU NEVER KNOW?, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


DISCONNECTING, by DREW TEN EYCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: You're in one of those moods
Last Line: You confuse love with what is not
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


DISCORDANTS: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Music I heard with you was more than music
Last Line: They knew you once, o beautiful and wise.
Variant Title(s): Bread And Music
Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of


DO NOT STAND ENOUGH APART, by PEGGY WILLIAMS POWERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Think love is neither small nor great
Last Line: Nor reckon the stuff of infinity.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


DOOR, by ORRICK JOHNS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is a proud and gentle thing, a better thing to own
Last Line: For life is only a small house - and love is an open door
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


DRIFTROSE, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What weird rewards the waves wash up
Last Line: Including that wet rose you held in your hand
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Problems


DUST, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I went to look at what had long been hidden
Last Line: Before the years can make it wise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


ECHO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to me in the silence of the night
Last Line: As long ago, my love, how long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


ECHOES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The might that shaped itself through storm
Last Line: Within a world of dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Echoes; Love - Nature Of; Thought; Thinking


ECHOES OF LOVE'S HOUSE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love gives every gift, whereby we long to live
Last Line: And is my praise nought worth for all my life undone?'
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


ELEGY, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We first lay down among flowers
Last Line: All-night love, all eternity in our vows
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 10. BLIND LOVE, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is that childish play call'd blind-man's bluff
Last Line: When's little brains are dashed against a post.
Subject(s): Games; Love - Nature Of; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 34. TRUE LOVE KNOWS BUT ONE, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You live at large, abroad you range and roam
Last Line: And gives you manna-taste of all in one.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 41. LOVE REQUIRES NO ENTREATIES, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When parched fields deny the welcome floods
Last Line: Then love shall yield to sighs, and tears and groans.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


EPIGRAM: 31. LOVE'S CAPRICIOUSNESS, by CALLIMACHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hunters, epicydes, go
Last Line: That ready for the taking lies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


EROS: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What need of a lamp
Last Line: Love must first shatter us.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): Fragment Forty-five: 5
Subject(s): Bible; Love - Nature Of


ESSENCE, by LAILE EUBANK    Poem Text                    
First Line: These sweet and heart-filled days
Last Line: To keep some fragrance still unspent...
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Perfume


ETERNAL LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Piteous my rhyme is
Last Line: Is all in all then.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Poetry & Poets


EVERY ONE THAT IS PERFECT SHALL BE AS HIS MASTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can one man, how can all men
Last Line: Love makes great the great and small.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Worship


EXPERIENCE, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some men break your heart in two,
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


FACE YOU LOOK OUT OF, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Your lover looks into
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Faces; Identity; Love - Nature Of; Nature


FAITHFUL BLACKBIRD, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the blackbird, in the new greenery, comes back
Last Line: Goes crazy with love in the greenery!
Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring


FAME AND LOVE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, dearest, thou dost speak of fame
Last Line: My heart is at thy feet.
Subject(s): Fame; Happiness; Love - Nature Of; Reputation; Joy; Delight


FEAR, by PEDRO SALINAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fear. Of you. Loving you
Last Line: Of being, in you, your life?
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring


FEELINGS EVOKED BY AN AUTUMN NIGHT: 1, by CHU SHU-CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A sliver of new moon hangs in the dusk
Last Line: It is time to realize that love is the root of all sorrow
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


FOR YOU, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For you, I could forget the gay
Last Line: "what could I not forget for you?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The


FORBIDDEN LOVE, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You rise, sparkling of lips and dark-ringed eyes!
Last Line: Love is a sinning christ!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


FORBIDDEN SPEECH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The passion you forbade my lips to utter
Last Line: "the voice of nature saying, ""he remembers."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Memory; Nature; Passion


FORWARD, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Negligent of hurt, / in heroic guise
Last Line: Leave the world behind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Strength


FOUND ON AN ENGLISH SUN DIAL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time flies / sun rise
Last Line: Love is forever over all
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


FRAGMENTS (3), by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ask, is love divine
Last Line: Ah, but no, no, no!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


FRAGOLETTA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O love! What shall be said of thee?
Last Line: The feet of love.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Nature Of; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Nightmares


FROM THE BEGINNING, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up to the eyeballs. Choked in it. Ourselves, minds compleat
Last Line: To pieces in the universal blender?
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Mankind


GLADS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I first admired gladioli
Last Line: Until even cut, in water, every one %flew its triumphant colors
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Psychoanalysis; Relationships


GLOOM THAT WINTER CASTS, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Which ne'er shall set again
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of


GLUKUPIKRON; TO SAPPHO, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Word you created / which we translate
Last Line: Your word for love.
Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Pleasure; Words; Vocabulary; Suffering; Misery


GRANDMAMMA'S WARNING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is a fire,' she said. 'love is a fire
Last Line: "oh, did you learn by what your elders told?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Grandparents; Love - Nature Of; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRAY, by ALICE WALKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a friend
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


GREAT LOVE: 1. GREAT LOVE IS HUMBLE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Humble is love, for he is honor's child
Last Line: Love should be humble -- his reward is meet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


GREAT LOVE: 2. GREAT LOVE IS PROUD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For very humbleness great love is proud
Last Line: Who for one royal moment entered there?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


GREAT RAIN OF THE SOUTH, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The great rain of te south is falling on isla negra
Last Line: A woman, a man, and winter on the earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Rain; Water


GROWN COLD; SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An old man asked me: what is love? I turned
Last Line: To rest when all its gladness goeth by!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Love - Nature Of


GYPSY MAN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ma man's a gypsy / cause he never does come home
Last Line: Sho can't find no ease.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Love - Nature Of; Negroes; American Blacks


HE WHO KNOWS LOVE, by ELSA BARKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


HEART AND MIND, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the lion to the lioness - 'when you are amber dust'
Last Line: One.'
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


HEIGH-HO!, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pretty young maiden sat on the grass
Last Line: Heaven blesses true lovers so fairly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Brides; Courtship; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


HERE IS MUSIC: 2, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Can it, indeed, be love which stirs
Last Line: Outlet for long-inhibited tenderness.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


HIC JACET, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So love is dead that has been quick so long!
Last Line: And yet, had love been love, he had not died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The


HIPPOLYTUS: HYMN TO POWER OF LOVE, by EURIPIDES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love distills desire upon the eyes
Last Line: Love is like a flitting bee in the world's garden %and for its flowers, destruction is in his breat
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


HOLIDAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love has so far on earth to seek
Last Line: The thing he meant.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


HOME, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it a tribute or betrayal when
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Beauty


HOW DOES LOVE SPEAK?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How does love speak?
Last Line: Thus doth love speak.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Passion


HOW TO KNOW LOVE FROM DECEIT, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love to faults is always blind
Last Line: And forges fetters for the mind
Subject(s): Bible; Duplicity; Love - Nature Of; Mythology; Deceit


HUMAN KIND CANNOT BEAR VERY MUCH REALITY', by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence tricks of dimension on us soft as kisses
Subject(s): Reality; Love - Nature Of


I CANNOT ESCAPE FROM YOU, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of which nothing can be said
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


I LOVE YOU SWEETHEART, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man risked his life to write the words.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


IDEA: 38, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sitting alone, love bids me go and write
Last Line: And love alone picks reason out of love.
Variant Title(s): "sitting Alone. Love Bids Me Goe And Write"";
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


IDEA: 56, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When like an eaglet I first found my love
Last Line: It after thee is, like an eaglet, flown.
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Love - Beginnings; Love - Nature Of


IDYLL 17. LOVE RESISTLESS, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright cypris! Goddess ever meek and mild
Last Line: That we the cruel one can never fly?
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


IF DY/DX = 4X3+X2-12/2X2-9, THEN, by AMY QUAN BARRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are standing at the ocean
Last Line: The sieves of the lungs like two cones
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Mathematics


IMPOSSIBLE LOVES, by ANDREA ZANZOTTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love as impossible as
Last Line: It will get in the way'
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


IN TIME OF MOURNING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Return,' we dare not as we fain
Last Line: May, 1885.
Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement


INDECISION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do I love her?
Last Line: "ah, yes, I do!"
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


INFIDELITY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


INORDINATE LOVE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I shall say what inordinate love is
Last Line: Or without quiet to have huge labour
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


INSCRIPTION FOR A MIRROR IN A DESERTED DWELLING, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Set silver cone to tulip flame!
Last Line: The words unbreathed, the tale untold, %the past unpiteous to your need!
Subject(s): Consolation; Love; Love - Nature Of


INVOCATION TO THE MUSES, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Awake! Ye tuneful nine, and sing
Last Line: Such lustre as their dewy eyne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring


IS LOVE A FANCY, OR A FEELING?, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is love a fancy, or a feeling? No
Last Line: And hope a spectre in a ruin bare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


IT'S INDELICATE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know to bore you with tales
Last Line: A moment of obscure propinquity
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


JUDGE NOTHING BEFORE THE TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love understands the mystery
Last Line: Love understands the mystery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


JURE DIVINO, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love is a draught from the lily's cup
Last Line: Sings ever the love of my love to me!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Nature


KESTRELS, by SIDNEY KEYES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I would think of you, my mind hold only
Last Line: Those cries and wings surprise our surest act
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


KNOWING LOVE IN HERSELF, by HADEWIJCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do not complain of suffering for love
Last Line: And makes me stray in a wild desert
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


KYRIELLE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whom do I love? And must I tell
Last Line: Shall reign, for I love you!
Subject(s): Confessions; Love; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


LAUS VENERIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Asleep or waking is it? For her neck
Last Line: Explicit laus veneris.
Subject(s): Death; God; Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The


LOCUST BLOOM, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now, my dear, the locust trees are in bloom
Last Line: And what I desire is all too far beyond me...
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Locust Trees; Love - Nature Of


LORD IVON AND HIS DAUGHTER, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How beautiful it is! Come here, my daughter!
Last Line: Thank god! Thank god!
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love - Nature Of


LOVE, by NICHOLAS BRETON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Foolish love is only folly
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O love! What art thou, love? The ace of hearts
Last Line: I'm not the first that love hath led astray.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE, by GEORGE PEELE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What thing is love? -- for sure love is a thing
Last Line: That mars with venus play'd even and odd.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is all happiness, love is all beauty
Last Line: And kindles endless glory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE, by JEAN BAPTISTE ROUSSEAU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love comes not by trying
Last Line: Turns not home from wandering.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE, by SAMAR SEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a poisonous snake in my blood
Last Line: My desire for you %unwinds like a poisonous snake
Subject(s): Animals; Love - Nature Of; Snakes


LOVE (1), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love on his errand bound to go
Last Line: And eat through alps its home to find.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE (2), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is a thing of frail and delicate growth
Last Line: For which there is no healing.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE A MYSTERY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It matters not its history - love has wings
Last Line: His life thy empire, and his heart thy throne?
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE AND HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love for ever dwells in heaven
Last Line: For perfect love, and perfect bliss, shall be our lot on high.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Hope; Love - Nature Of; Optimism


LOVE AND LAW, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: True love is founded in rocks of remembrance
Last Line: With patience its watchword, and law for its throne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Religion; Theology


LOVE AND LIFE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love only sings when love is young
Last Line: Shall come to make him young again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE AND WINE, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, bacchus, bid thy nectar flow
Last Line: Fling down his scythe and join us.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of


LOVE BEING ALL ONE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could I forget thee, I should forget
Last Line: I should forget to forget defeat.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE BEYOND KEEPING, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She had a box
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE CONSTANT BEYOND DEATH, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Last of the shadows may close my eyes
Last Line: But being ash will feel %dust be dust in love
Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De
Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Nature Of


LOVE ETERNAL, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The human heart will never change
Last Line: The golden earth, the blue-robed sea.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE HAS SEVEN NAMES, by HADEWIJCH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Though love appears far off, %you will move into depth
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE IN DISGUISE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I mourned beneath the willow tree
Last Line: My phyllis smiled on me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE IN JUNE, by MARY GENEVIEVE MANAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love is a rose that blooms
Last Line: Ere we too pass away.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor; Roses; Similes


LOVE IN THE VALLEY (VERSION B), by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward
Last Line: All seem to know what is for heaven alone.
Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Love - Nature Of


LOVE IS A BOG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "love is a bog, a deep bog, and a wide bog"
Last Line: And dwells in the house of melancholy
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of;melancholy; Dejection


LOVE IS A FLAME, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is a flame that burns with sacred fire
Last Line: But knows the heart, 'tis but a word for pain.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE IS A LOT LIKE QUICKSAND, by ROBIN REBECCA MACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: She snatched the letter %out of my hand
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE IS LIFE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our days are few and full of strife
Last Line: And surely we are more than they.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE IS NOT WINGED, by EUBULUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who gave love wings? Whose pencil drew the line
Last Line: The man's a fool who ever mentioned wings.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE LIKE A CAPITOL HILL, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love like a capitol hill, where the dome dares mold the sky
Last Line: Where the legislature makes laws of nature, and you wish you %hadn't come
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE LIKE SALT, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It lies in our hands in crystals
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Salt


LOVE SOLE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know the shibboleth that slips
Last Line: And blossoms unto brotherhood.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Love - Nature Of


LOVE SONG, by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I love you like the wind, love
Last Line: The nearer to the stars!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE TEN YEARS OLD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Our love this day is ten years old
Last Line: And knows the man is old and blind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Old Age


LOVE UNCHANGED, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love, my love, if I were old
Last Line: In years of grief and sadness, love shall be love!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S ARITHMETIC, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You often ask me, love, how much I love you
Last Line: "'twill last our lives,"" you said."
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S ARTIFICE, by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I said it was a wilful, wayward thing
Last Line: That it is love, true love -- nothing but love!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S BIRD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When thrushes rest the weary head
Last Line: Through the sweet night with rustling wings?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S BLINDNESS, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They call her fair. I do not know
Last Line: Her beauty was of kind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus
Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S DIET, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To what a combersome unwieldinesse
Last Line: And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talke, and sleepe.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S FORCE, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the first ruder age, when love was wild
Last Line: Itself for its own proper object melt.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S FRUIT, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a little life that beat from mine
Last Line: But bears immortal fruit within her womb.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S GOLDEN PILGRIMAGE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: To one who loves, all things are beautiful
Last Line: Perceives in nature things unseen before.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring


LOVE'S HEALING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My chosen one - you to whom I have said
Last Line: And wander there beside him in love's wood.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery


LOVE'S HOUSE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not how these men or those may take
Last Line: Leans down to me and tells me everything.
Subject(s): Houses; Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S HUMBLENESS, by ELSA BARKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know the pride of love, the happiness
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S INNOCENCE, by THOMAS STANLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See how this ivy strives to twine
Last Line: What above reason is, or beneath sense.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S LANGUAGE, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their little language the children
Last Line: Which is hidden with love and thee.
Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Words; Vocabulary


LOVE'S MATURITY, by HADEWIJCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the beginning love satisfies us
Last Line: And bear fruit slowly
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S MUSIC, by EDWIN J. REBMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some musics break against the heart more still
Last Line: And, kissing me, burn, burn and burn and burn.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S MYSTERIES, by RICHARD JOSEPH SCHOECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I behold the peace and beauty of
Last Line: Into the unknown ocean whence it came.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schoeck, R. J.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S POTENCIE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If men were fashioned of the stone
Last Line: My heart must feel, its love must live!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S SUBTILTY; AN IDYLLIUM, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By pisa's walls does old alpheus flow
Last Line: That taught the am'rous river thus to run.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S TENDERNESS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deem not my love is only for the bloom
Last Line: With what a tenderness it dreams and sings!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S TOKENS, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love's herald is not speech
Last Line: Their lord will never be!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S WAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love gives us copious potions of delight
Last Line: For love's whole life is one great paradox.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE'S YOUTH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Not only is my love a flower
Last Line: That laugh and call thee mother?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVE, HOPE, AND BEAUTY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love may be increased by fears
Last Line: For without hope it dies.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Love - Nature Of; Optimism


LOVE, WHOSE MONTH WAS EVER MAY, by ULRICH VON LICHTENSTEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When with may the air is sweet
Last Line: Love inconstant I forbear.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


LOVELIGHT, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange atoms we unto ourselves
Last Line: And love the light between.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LOVING AND BELOVED, by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There never yet was honest man
Last Line: Loves triumph, must be honours funeral.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 55, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They sat round the tea-table drinking
Last Line: The tale of thy love, sweet, to say.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Tea


MAGNIFICAT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Praise god, who wrought for you and me
Last Line: Then put your hand into my hand.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


MARJORIE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up in the hills of tennessee
Last Line: That girl is mine—my marjorie!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of


MAROON BELLS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can I love you more than
Last Line: The light love you and love you
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor; Similes


MAROON BELLS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can I love you more than
Last Line: The light love you and love you
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor


MARRIAGE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No word! No sound! But yet a solemn rite
Last Line: Is the free breath of every happy soul.
Subject(s): Deafness; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MASQUE OF THE VIRTUES AGAINST LOVE, by GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUARINI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We the white witches are, that free / enchanted hearts from slavery
Last Line: Claim naught but th' honour of the victory.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


MEDITATION UNDER STARS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What links are ours with orbs that are
Last Line: Half strange seems earth, and sweeter than her flowers.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Meditation; Night; Stars; Bedtime


MENAPHON'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some say love / foolish love
Last Line: Labour for me, love rest in prince's bower.
Variant Title(s): Dispraise Of Love
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


MENAPHON: SONNETTO, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What thing is love? It is a power divine
Last Line: Which one may better feel than write upon.
Variant Title(s): Love - What?
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


MIDSUMMER, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two yearling deer %stood in heavy falling mist
Last Line: I cannot touch or name
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


MUCH CHANGE IN A LITTLE TIME, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And she too - that beloved child, was gone
Last Line: We know not love till those we love depart.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


MUSIC, FR. TWELFTH NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If music be the food of love, play on
Last Line: That it alone, is high fantastical.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Music & Musicians


MY DEAREST RIVAL, LEST OUR LOVE, by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To love so much as she'll deserve
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


MY HEAVEN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had a dream, sweetheart, last night
Last Line: The heaven in your love.
Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Love - Nature Of; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


MY LIGHT WITH YOURS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the sea has devoured the ships
Last Line: In the light of lights forever!
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


MY LOVE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love is like a lily bud
Last Line: To love and ne'er to part!
Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


NIGHT, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Celia, when you bade me
Last Line: Anything so intimate %as you are saying, dead?
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


NO MAN CAN ESCAPE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: No man can escape from a woman's love
Last Line: No man can escape if he tries.
Subject(s): Fathers; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


NOT BLIND, by H. M. H.    Poem Text                    
First Line: If love is blind, how can it be
Last Line: If love is blind?
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


NUANCE IN LOVE, by MABEL MUNNS CHARLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: That shadowy withdrawal in your smile
Last Line: The slow but certain coming of the snow.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


NUNC SCIO, QUID SIT AMOR, by LOUIS ALEXANDER MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know him now, not now to know demanding
Last Line: Are rocky veins, ablaze with gold and fire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smalacombe, John; Mackay, L. A.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


O SAY NOT PURE AFFECTIONS CHANGE!, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With tenfold force return!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time


OF BEAUTY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a love so passionate it tears
Last Line: To loveliness that we should be denied?
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Passion; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


OH NEVER KISS ME; STAND APART, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And never over-dear
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


OH WOULD THAT I COULD FLY TO YOU, by HARRIET E. CARSKADEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, would that I could fly to you
Last Line: You'll get it christmas day.
Subject(s): Christmas; Love - Nature Of; Nativity, The


OH! DROOP THOU NOT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Droop thou not, my gentle earthly love!
Last Line: They are of heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


OH, TO BE IN LOVE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of the senses %overflowing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Nature


OLD LOVE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You must be very old , sir giles'
Last Line: True love is not so hard to smutch.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Old Age


ON RECEIVING A GIFT, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look how the golden ocean shines above
Last Line: And more than gold to doting avarice.
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love - Nature Of


ON THE BEACH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot help you' was the message
Last Line: Away as a wing sewn by hand
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Love - Nature Of; Seashore; Summer


ONE WHO LOVED, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have heard of a great love
Last Line: How many of you really love each other?
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


ORIENTALE: 1, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I spoke to thee
Last Line: O thou, is love not death?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Life; Love - Nature Of


OTHER DAYS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thrush, your song is passing sweet
Last Line: And with the growing years grows strong.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


PARADOX: THAT FRUITION DESTROYS LOVE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is our reason's paradox, which still
Last Line: As warm our hands by putting out the fire.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Pygmalion; Troy


PASTICHE, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, oh, love's a dainty sweeting
Last Line: Lost when most securely won!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


PLATONIC LOVE, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, dearest julia! Thou and I
Last Line: Doth gently warm, consumes when near.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


PLATONIC [OR, PLATONICK] LOVE (1), by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Disconsolate and sad
Last Line: My chief contentment I will entertain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


PLATONIC [OR, PLATONICK] LOVE (2), by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Madam, believe't, love is not such a toy
Last Line: Have their contents they in each other find.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


PLATONIC [OR, PLATONICK] LOVE (3), by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Madam, your beauty and your lovely parts
Last Line: Will turn, and circle, with their rays, your face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


POEM: 22, by YUNUS EMRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good health to the soul of that lover who has union with the beloved. His
Last Line: Time will not touch love; love has no months and years
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time


POUR QUI SAIT ATTENDRE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All things, they say, come home to those that wait
Last Line: In thanks to heaven, who did not wait to kiss?
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Patience


QUINQUAGESIMA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is alone the worthly law of love
Last Line: For one to know who is fain to love and learn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


RECESSIONAL (1), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider me a memory, a dream that passed away!
Last Line: Within, without, the vassal heart -- its reasoning who knows?
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


RESCUE THE DEAD, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Finally, to forgo love is to kiss a leaf
Last Line: You who are free / rescue the dead
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Love


RONDEL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Scarlet and gold the leaves are turning
Last Line: And gray are the days, for the year is old.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Wandering & Wanderers


ROSA MUNDI, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An angel of pale desire
Last Line: To the angel of pale desire.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SATISFACTORY, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you remember, darling
Last Line: "his lion with the lyre."
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SEARCH, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She writes that she cannot
Last Line: Know, the words of 'love'
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Nature Of


SEEKING LOVE, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: He said he knew nothing of love
Last Line: I did not understand.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SHE LIVED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After he died
Last Line: Deciding to live. And she lived.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Strength; Survival


SHE SAID IN APOLOGY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They aren't very big are
Last Line: The inner light I cherish
Variant Title(s): An Apolog
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SILENT LOVE, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Let our love be still a folded flower
Last Line: Th' awaken'd god from psyche's daring eye!
Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SLIPPERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When youth is gone, and beauty too
Last Line: Will not the other heed?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Youth


SOLOMON TO SHEBA, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sang solomon to sheba
Last Line: "the world a narrow pound."
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He or she that hopes to gain
Last Line: Both or neither
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONG, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love lies beyond
Last Line: The faithful, young, and true.
Variant Title(s): Love
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


SONG, by DAVID GARRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would you taste the sweets of love
Last Line: "nectar if you stay."
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONG, by EMELYN BATTERSBY HARTRIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are days when the sun shines warm
Last Line: Love is all our own.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONG, by M. W. M.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wert thou yet fairer than thou art
Last Line: Tis I love you, 'cause you love me.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONG, by THOMAS MACDONAGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is cruel, love is sweet
Last Line: Sweet is boldness, shyness pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonough, Thomas
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONG (2), by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, no, the falling blossom is no sign
Last Line: The purer passion and the firmer faith.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


SONG (7), by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love within the lover's breast
Last Line: Ever shall I sing of thee.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONG (IN THE LUCKY CHANCE), by APHRA BEHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O love! That stronger art than wine
Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONG OF CORIDON AND MELAMPUS, by GEORGE PEELE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Melampus, when will love be void of fears?
Last Line: Mel. When deeds win meed and words love-works do prove.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONG, FR. URANIA, by MARY SIDNEY WROTH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love what art thou? A vain thought
Last Line: But thy law I once obeyed %therefore say no more at first
Alternate Author Name(s): Wroth, Mary, Lady; Montgomery, Countess Of
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONG: 1, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love shall be a cloud, to float
Last Line: From one sweet flower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONG: 24, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not love you very much
Last Line: To steal so large a part.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONG: CONQUEST BY FLIGHT, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ladies, fly from love's smooth tale
Last Line: Conquer love that run away.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONG: THE LOVER'S FATE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard is the fate of him who loves
Last Line: True love and friendship are the same.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONGS ASCENDING, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love has been sung a thousand ways
Last Line: I am not I %but you
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 67, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She had the fluttering eyelids
Last Line: God gives his foolish ones.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 71, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the whole year, I think, I love
Last Line: In the red autumn by the sea.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 81, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remnants of this soul of mine
Last Line: More compelling than the sea.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNET, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She took the dappled partridge flecked with blood
Last Line: To make my love an immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Love - Nature Of; Partridge; Rabbits; Hares


SONNET SEQUENCE: 2, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love never jests, though in his words at times
Last Line: For love allegiance owes and pays alone to thee.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNET SEQUENCE: 3, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is to love? Let love the answer give
Last Line: The lesser yielding that the greater learn to live.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNET TO MANON: HIS FORTUNE IN LOVING HER, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not choose thee, dearest. It was love
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNET-SEQUENCE: 6, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And dost thou love me not a whit the less
Last Line: He who speaks thus; of real love knoweth not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNET: 26, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is not blind. I see with single eye
Last Line: I wonder only why they prize it so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of


SONNET: AMOUR OBLIGE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could forgive you, dearest, all the folly
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Aging


SONNET: ANDREW MARVELL'S 'DEFINITION OF LOVE', by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My love is of a birth as rare
Last Line: "yet I rejoice, and take thee for my king."
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets


SONNET: LOVE'S DEPTH, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love's height is easy scaling; skies allure
Last Line: To hell it reacheth so 'tis love at all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNET: LOVE'S HEIGHT, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love's name is easy saying, yet who knows
Last Line: But love upraised to love, that love doth lift.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNET: THE PLEASURES OF LOVE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not care for kisses. 'tis a debt
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNET: THE RELIGION OF LOVE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So thou but love me, dear, with thy whole heart
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 10, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
Last Line: How that great work of love enhances nature's.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 11, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And therefore if to love can be desert
Last Line: To bless thee, yet renounce thee to thy face.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 14, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Last Line: Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
Variant Title(s): Love For Love's Sake;for Love's Sake Only
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Love - Nature Of; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 16, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And yet, because thou overcomest so
Last Line: Make thy love larger to enlarge my worth.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 29, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think of thee! - my thoughts do twine and bud
Last Line: I do not think of thee -- I am too near thee.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 36, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we met first and loved, I did not build
Last Line: Must lose one joy, by his life's star foretold.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 37, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make
Last Line: And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 6, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Last Line: And sees within my eyes the tears of two.
Variant Title(s): Far And Yet Near
Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Love - Nature Of; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 144, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your love, it is like a bull
Last Line: Where it is placed, there it stays
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 87, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though I am a bit dark
Last Line: As snow can be
Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Love - Nature Of


SPONG (3), by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love me with your whole heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SPRING LANDSCAPE, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here sways the willow
Last Line: Here where the sun has taken fecund earth to wife!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Spring; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


STONE DUST, by FRANK ERNEST HILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods have not yet learned to fear the lover
Last Line: From a crumbling wall.
Subject(s): Dust; Love - Nature Of; Stones; Supernatural; Granite; Rocks


STORNELLI AND STRAMBOTTI, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flower of the vine
Last Line: She who remembers sits at home and grieves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SUMMER LIGHTNING, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I would rather ruffle leaves
Last Line: No girl had loved unless she chose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SUMMER'S JOE, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: He unlocked an apple first, then lifted the latch
Last Line: With no again, a feast of no.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


SUNSHINE AND SHOWER, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blow soft, ye winds, from out the south
Last Line: Her peaceful radiance!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Nature Of; Peace; Youth; Paradise


SUPREME, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fairest lips are those we kiss
Last Line: When life is just an afterglow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


SWEET MOUTH, by LUIS DE GONGORA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweet mouth that is inviting to taste
Last Line: And all that remains of love is venom
Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De
Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Love - Nature Of; Roses


TAKE WHOM YOU WILL, by EDA LOU WALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Take whom you will for mistress; let me be
Last Line: Make me companion of the hopeless quest.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


TENDER AND TRUE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: True love is but a humble, low-born thing
Last Line: Yearning to be but understood and loved.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE ADMONITION BY THE AUCTOR TO ALL YONG GENTILWOMEN, by ISABELLA WHITNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye virgins that from cupid's tents
Last Line: I live this hundred yeares.
Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Words; Vocabulary


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 1. PRELUDE. LOVE'S REALITY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk, I trust, with open eyes
Last Line: Its odour quickens all my brain.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 5. PRELUDE. LOVE IN TEARS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If fate love's dear ambition mar
Last Line: More generous, dignified, and pure.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 7. PRELUDE. LOVE'S IMMORTALITY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How vilely 'twere to misdeserve
Last Line: And has the dignity of fate.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 6. PRELUDE. LOVE'S PERVERSITY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How strange a thing a lover seems
Last Line: Against the bars of time and fate.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 6. PRELUDE. THE POWER OF LOVE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Samson the mighty, solomon
Last Line: When look'd at in the light of love.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE ANSWER: SIR TOBY MATTHEWS, by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, but did you love so long
Last Line: A dozen dozen to disgrace.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Matthews, Sir Toby (1577-1655)


THE BROKEN APPOINTMENT, by JOHN KENYON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sought at morn the beechen bower
Last Line: Born but to die!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE CALL OF LOVE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O immortal love! The centuries
Last Line: O sequestered face—love's deathless countenance!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of


THE CALL OF SCIENCE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: He speaks: / 'my girl,' quoth he, 'I feel each cell
Last Line: Currents reversed for their divorce.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Eros


THE CHARACTER OF LOVE SEEN AS SEARCH FOR THE LOST, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, the woman; I, the man; this, the world
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE CHRIST-SWORD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The while my mad brain whirled around
Last Line: With terrible yet tender breath.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DARK CHAMBER, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brain forgets but the blood will remember
Last Line: The music, the silence. . . . These will remain
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


THE DURATION OF LOVE, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, love as long as you can love
Last Line: By graves lamenting you will stay!
Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE DURATION OF LOVE, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Love while love is left to thee
Last Line: Thou'lt mourn by silent graves—alone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE ENCREASE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought, I'le swear, I could have lov'd no more
Last Line: That loves's a motion naturall to me.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE FAREWELL, by THOMAS STANLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since fate commands me hence, and I
Last Line: Love hath more power than destiny.
Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Nature Of; Parting


THE FIRST SNOW, by J. B. BENTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: It silently fell in the gloom and the night
Last Line: In june or november, mid flowers or snow.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE FRIEND, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sat across the table.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE GIVEN HEART, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder what those lovers mean, who say
Last Line: No drosse was there, to perish in the fire.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE HORSE-LEECH'S DAUGHTER, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The veterinary surgeon had a daughter
Last Line: And love is worth what it cost you, nothing more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE LADY TO THE LOVER, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since thou wouldst have me show
Last Line: Therefore similitudes thou must forego.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE LOVER AND THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a budding grove, / in april's ear sang every bird his best
Last Line: Most comforting and gentle thoughts I had.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Nature Of; Pity; Sensibility; Tears


THE MAGIC FLOWER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You bear a flower in your hand
Last Line: Let not your magic blossom fall.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Nature Of


THE MARK OF THE ROSE, by HOWARD THAYER KINGSBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I opened the book before me
Last Line: Shall last forever and aye.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Nature Of; Roses


THE MYSTERY, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your eyes drink of me
Last Line: Or you know me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE PATIENT LOVERS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is an illness still to be
Last Line: That we are ill, of being well.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sickness; Women; Women's Rights; Illness; Feminism


THE PHILOSOPHER TO HIS LOVE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest, a look is but a ray
Last Line: Or some sweet angel, likest thee!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE PLACE OF LOVE, by S. C. BRACKETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love, thou art not alone for gentle dells
Last Line: Where thou art waiting, love.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE POET SPEAKS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How much living have you done?
Last Line: And loving only giving.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE POSIE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O luve will venture in, where it daur na weel be seen
Last Line: And this will be a posie to my ain dear may.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE POWER OF LOVE, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My children, know love is not love alone
Last Line: Shatters all purposes of men and gods.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE QUESTION, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While needles of the evergreen
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Trees


THE REASON WHY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love thee and I love thee not
Last Line: I know my love can never die.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE RECIPE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is made of tenderness, love is made of fire
Last Line: And faith and hope and charity—and simple common sense.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE RICH RIVALL, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say you're angry, and rant mightily
Last Line: Ah, simple soule what would become of thee!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


THE SHEPHERD'S DESCRIPTION OF LOVE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "shepherd, what's love, I pray thee tell"
Last Line: And shepherd this is love I trow
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE SORROW OF LOVE (1), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The quarrel of the sparrows in the eaves
Last Line: Are shaken with earth's old and weary cry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE SPANISH FRIAR: 1-3. LOVE'S DESPAIR, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell ungratefull traitor
Last Line: When living is a pain.
Subject(s): Friars; Love; Love - Nature Of


THE STEP THAT WE KNOW, by MARY E. MODRICKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the day is done
Last Line: For the step that we know.
Subject(s): Comfort; Love - Nature Of


THE STORY, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are telling a story
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE THOUGHT, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you do love as well as I
Last Line: If you do love as well as I.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE THREE SINGERS TO YOUNG BLOOD, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Carols nature, counsel men
Last Line: Heavenly rose to swelling sea.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Love - Unrequited


THE TIME OF ROSES, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, it is the time of roses!
Last Line: Crown me with the rose of love!
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Nature Of; Perfume; Roses


THE TRYSTING-PLACE, by M. E. H. EVERETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The winds blow up through the blooming vale
Last Line: Forgotten and left alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Everett, M. E. H.
Subject(s): Longing; Love - Nature Of; Solitude; Loneliness


THE TWO WIVES (SMOKER'S CLUB STORY), by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I waited at home all the while they were boating together
Last Line: "and it's just the same thing, don't you see."
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE VIOLIN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing sweet, sing sweet, my violin, sing
Last Line: Is gone for us. Good-night, good-night.
Subject(s): Curses; Desire; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of


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 WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ONCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A falling star that shot across
Last Line: "but ever love is love forever!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Love - Nature Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WAVE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood on the shore of the world
Last Line: Vanished into the air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Waves


THE WEDDING, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At noon, tithonus, withered by his singing
Last Line: Woke from the nap, forgetting him; and ate him.
Subject(s): Insects; Love - Nature Of; Mythology - Classical; Spiders; Bugs


THE WOODLAND WAY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the glowworms trim their lanterns
Last Line: Love tires at last of kisses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE WORLD HAD FLED, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world had fled, with all its silly cares
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THE YOUNG PRINCESS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the south sang like a nightingale
Last Line: To the breeze and the orange-flower.
Subject(s): Chivalry; Love; Love - Nature Of


THE YOUNG USURPER, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On my darling's bosom
Last Line: To claim it for his own.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


THERE WILL BE STARS, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There will be stars over the place forever
Last Line: There will be stars forever, while we sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Stars


THESE THINGS THAT POETS SAID, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I, loving not, am different
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Poetry And Poets


THINKING OF SAINTS AND OF PETRONIUS ARBITHE, by MARY BUTTS (1890-1937)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between a toy and a crucifix
Last Line: Any people but these.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 22, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus I resolve, and time hath taught me so
Last Line: Wild born be wild still, though by force you tame.
Variant Title(s): Thus I Resolve
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THOSE WHO LOVE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those who love the most
Last Line: A light would pass over her face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


THROWN ASIDE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! I have loved thee fondly
Last Line: My love can never fade!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Worship


TO CELIA, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old fictions say that love hath eyes
Last Line: Who hath no ugliness to hate.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


TO CELIA, UPON LOVE'S UBIQUITY, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As one that strives, being sick, and sick to death
Last Line: I'll think on you, and by you think on heaven.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


TO CHLOE, by JOHN OLDMIXON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Prithee, chloe, not so fast
Last Line: Love without it will not please.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Patience


TO DELIA: 1, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unto the boundless ocean of thy beauty
Last Line: Who can show all his love doth love but lightly.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


TO HIS MISTRESS, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There comes an end to summer
Last Line: Than love which is not free.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


TO HIS MISTRESS, by GEORGE VILLIERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a dull fool was I
Last Line: To you alone, it always shall be true!
Alternate Author Name(s): Buckingham, 2d Duke Of
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


TO JEAN, by LURA PUTNAM CARR    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would give to thee only life's beautiful things
Last Line: And a love that only true living brings.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of


TO MOINA, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were no heaven but for lovers' eyes
Last Line: And find his purple if his lady choose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


TO MY LOVE, by KJELL HJERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You have as many defects as a pig has lice and you will rub against
Last Line: With a great and insatiable appetite
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Passion


TO ONE IN PARADISE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou wast all that to me, love
Last Line: By what eternal streams.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


TO ONE WHO SCANTS WORDS, by IRENE M. MORSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do
Last Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do.
Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Romance; Words; Vocabulary


TO THE TUNE OF THE COVENTRY CAROL, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nearly right
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


TO THE TUNE OF THE COVENTRY CAROL, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nearly right
Last Line: Forget him and forget her
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


TO YOU I TURN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: To you I turn in time of stress
Last Line: To you I turn!
Subject(s): Despair; Love - Nature Of


TOWARD A DEFINITION OF LOVE, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another time they were making love. It's even better
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


TOWARD A DEFINITION OF LOVE, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another time they were making love. It's even better
Last Line: Of the kids playing with a ball in the gutter
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A MESSAGE COMMITTED TO THE WAVES, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the waters flowing as of old - dancing, rippling
Last Line: Arise! For great is your triumph!
Subject(s): Humanity; Love - Nature Of


TRAGIC LOVE, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who shall invoke when we are gone
Last Line: But some pure lustre from their light %all future worlds shall have
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


TRANSCENDENT LOVE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In all the world, the greatest thing is love
Last Line: By the sound in trumpet call—transcendent love.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Nature Of; Joy; Delight


TRANSITION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O lay again thy hand in mine
Last Line: Dear voice, speak on.
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Love - Nature Of; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence


TRUE LOVE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: True love. Is it normal
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


TRUE LOVE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: True love. Is it normal
Last Line: Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


TRUE LOVE'S REWARD, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love, walking in the garden of the king
Last Line: And lo! The king made him an honored guest.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Love; Love - Nature Of


TRUE OR FALSE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So you think you love me, do you?
Last Line: We will -- wait and see!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Soul


TURKISH REFRAIN, by ALPHONSO GERALD NEWCOMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sunlight slants through the tremulous trees
Last Line: For soon, ah, soon, spring passes away.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


TUSCAN OLIVES: RISPETTO 1, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The colour of the olives who shall say?
Last Line: As love is always love in tears or jest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Olive Trees And Olives


TWO FROM RANCHO CIENEGUILLA: MORNING, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bird tracks in the dust
Last Line: Shaking out her black and orange silks
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Passion


TWO SONNETS: 2, by HANS ZINSSER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now is death merciful. He calls me hence
Last Line: Then, ageless, in your heart I'll come to rest %serene and proud as when you loved me best
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


TZU YEH SONG: 5, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have brought my pillow and am lying at the northern window
Last Line: How long do you think our love can last?
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.);love - Nature Of


UNCERTAIN, by MARY M. WOOLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Can I be sure that love is still for me?
Last Line: A muted melody, complete?
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time


UNDERSTANDING, by ANNA HOLM POGUE    Poem Text                    
First Line: No longer drab and meaningless, at last
Last Line: For love is truth, and it has set me free.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


UNEASY RIDER, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Falling in love with a mustache
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Motorcycles


UNION IN DISSEVERANCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunset worn to its last vermilion he
Last Line: One. More one than the bridally embraced.
Subject(s): Evening; Evening Star; Love - Nature Of; Sunset; Twilight


UNKNOWN FAIR FACES, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though I am faithful to my loves lived through
Last Line: My heart she goes from -- never from my sight!
Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of


UNSATISFACTORY, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have other lovers - say, my love
Last Line: "I'll see what I can do."
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


UNTITLED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Surely I am able to write poems
Last Line: Another poem?
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Poetry & Poets


VAGRANT, by GEORGE ELLISTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: My heart is anywhere
Last Line: Or laggard anywhere.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


VICISSITUDE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O blithe and bonny! When woods are green
Last Line: Unto no earthly spring!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Forests; Love - Nature Of; Spring; Woods


VIOLET LIGHTNINGS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I would image her features
Last Line: My soul basks on for hours.
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


WHAT IS LOVE, by ROBERT HEATH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis a child of phansie's getting
Last Line: Tis all in all: without love nothing is.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


WHAT REDRESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray you, do not use this thing
Last Line: There's nothing hurts like tenderness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Prayer


WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When she says margarita she means daiquiri.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Drinks & Drinking; Absence; Wine; Separation; Isolation


WHITE DRESS, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some evening when you are sitting alone
Last Line: Even when the sound of my footsteps is no longer heard
Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of


WHY DO I LOVE YOU?, by ROY CROFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love you, / not only for what you are
Last Line: Love means.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


WHY?, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: What makes you ask dan cupid 'why?'
Last Line: For love never knows the reason why.
Subject(s): Angels; Cupid; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Eros


WILL YOU LOVE ME WHEN I'M OLD?, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I would ask of you, my darling"
Last Line: That you'll love me when I'm old
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


WISH, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wanted to give you something for your pain
Last Line: By my wish to please. And then you died
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Poetry And Poets; Wishes


WORK, by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine is the shape forever set between
Last Line: He prays that he may find me after death!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Wellesley College


Y VOLVER, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is to say love
Last Line: Horses' manes, and rides
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


Y VOLVER, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is to say love
Last Line: Free. Love, in her candor, %can't explain the attraction %but nuzzles the wild %horse's mane, and ri
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


YOU LOVE, YOU WONDER, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You love a woman and you wonder where she goes all night
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Nature Of; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


YOU SAY YOU LOVE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You say you love, but will you ever know
Last Line: No haven, alas, for me
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


YOUTH, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life in the book of lovers bade me look
Last Line: "I go to add another page to this!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Books; Love; Love - Nature Of; Reading


YOUTH AND LOVE, by AMY LEVY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What does youth know of love?
Last Line: It is not youth who knows.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Youth