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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LOVE - NATURE OF Matches Found: 441 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` (KTOS POWIEDZIAL), by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source 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 tuneand 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 minemy 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 facelove'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 gravesalone! 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 charityand 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 calltranscendent 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? 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