Love Poetry

• A Wonderful Sting
  This feeling is like a wonderful sting.
  I want this feeling to hold me captive.
  I wouldn't give this up, not even for all four seasons to be spring.
  It doesn't need to be masked as attractive,
  This unstable beautiful pain is mine, its what I want, what I need!
  My happiness continually gains,
  This is great. Something this good cannot be greed!
  I'm glad to leave them, I found a better lain.
  This I intend to keep.
  No one else can have it, its mine!
  Its mine when I'm awake, its mine when I'm asleep!
  What's going on. This feeling is no longer a straight line.
  I'm trapped in this bind, I no longer feel fine,
  and now, I'm alone without a sign.
  In Love - 83 days ago
• A Farewell to False Love
  

  Farewell false love, the oracle of lies,
  A mortal foe and enemy to rest,
  An envious boy, from whom all cares arise,
  A bastard vile, a beast with rage possessed,
  A way of error, a temple full of treason,
  In all effects contrary unto reason.

  A poisoned serpent covered all with flowers,
  Mother of sighs, and murderer of repose,
  A sea of sorrows whence are drawn such showers
  As moisture lend to every grief that grows;
  A school of guile, a net of deep deceit,
  A gilded hook that holds a poisoned bait.

  A fortress foiled, which reason did defend,
  A siren song, a fever of the mind,
  A maze wherein affection finds no end,
  A raging cloud that runs before the wind,
  A substance like the shadow of the sun,
  A goal of grief for which the wisest run.

  A quenchless fire, a nurse of trembling fear,
  A path that leads to peril and mishap,
  A true retreat of sorrow and despair,
  An idle boy that sleeps in pleasure's lap,
  A deep mistrust of that which certain seems,
  A hope of that which reason doubtful deems.

  Sith* then thy trains my younger years betrayed, [since]
  And for my faith ingratitude I find;
  And sith repentance hath my wrongs bewrayed*, [revealed]
  Whose course was ever contrary to kind*: [nature]
  False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu.
  Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

  
  In Love - 83 days ago
• A Nocturnal Reverie
  In such a night, when every louder wind
  Is to its distant cavern safe confined;
  And only gentle Zephyr fans his wings,
  And lonely Philomel, still waking, sings;
  Or from some tree, famed for the owl's delight,
  She, hollowing clear, directs the wand'rer right:
  In such a night, when passing clouds give place,
  Or thinly veil the heav'ns' mysterious face;
  When in some river, overhung with green,
  The waving moon and trembling leaves are seen;
  When freshened grass now bears itself upright,
  And makes cool banks to pleasing rest invite,
  Whence springs the woodbind, and the bramble-rose,
  And where the sleepy cowslip sheltered grows;
  Whilst now a paler hue the foxglove takes,
  Yet checkers still with red the dusky brakes
  When scattered glow-worms, but in twilight fine,
  Shew trivial beauties watch their hour to shine;
  Whilst Salisb'ry stands the test of every light,
  In perfect charms, and perfect virtue bright:
  When odors, which declined repelling day,
  Through temp'rate air uninterrupted stray;
  When darkened groves their softest shadows wear,
  And falling waters we distinctly hear;
  When through the gloom more venerable shows
  Some ancient fabric, awful in repose,
  While sunburnt hills their swarthy looks conceal,
  And swelling haycocks thicken up the vale:
  When the loosed horse now, as his pasture leads,
  Comes slowly grazing through th' adjoining meads,
  Whose stealing pace, and lengthened shade we fear,
  Till torn-up forage in his teeth we hear:
  When nibbling sheep at large pursue their food,
  And unmolested kine rechew the cud;
  When curlews cry beneath the village walls,
  And to her straggling brood the partridge calls;
  Their shortlived jubilee the creatures keep,
  Which but endures, whilst tyrant man does sleep;
  When a sedate content the spirit feels,
  And no fierce light disturbs, whilst it reveals;
  But silent musings urge the mind to seek
  Something, too high for syllables to speak;
  Till the free soul to a composedness charmed,
  Finding the elements of rage disarmed,
  O'er all below a solemn quiet grown,
  Joys in th' inferior world, and thinks it like her own:
  In such a night let me abroad remain,
  Till morning breaks, and all's confused again;
  Our cares, our toils, our clamors are renewed,
  Or pleasures, seldom reached, again pursued.
  In Love - 83 days ago
• A Red Red Rose
  

  O my Luve's like a red, red rose
  That's newly sprung in June;
  O my Luve's like the melodie
  That's sweetly played in tune.

  As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
  So deep in luve am I;
  And I will luve thee still, my dear,
  Till a' the seas gang dry:

  Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
  And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
  I will luve thee still, my dear,
  While the sands o' life shall run.

  And fare thee weel, my only Luve,
  And fare thee weel awhile!
  And I will come again, my Luve,
  Tho' it ware ten thousand mile.

  
  In Love - 83 days ago
• A charm invests a face
  

  A charm invests a face
  Imperfectly beheld.
  The lady dare not lift her veil
  For fear it be dispelled.

  But peers beyond her mesh,
  And wishes, and denies,
  Lest interview annul a want
  That image satisfies.

  
  In Love - 83 days ago
• A Blue Valentine
  

  Monsignore,
  Right Reverend Bishop Valentinus,
  Sometime of Interamna, which is called Ferni,
  Now of the delightful Court of Heaven,
  I respectfully salute you,
  I genuflect
  And I kiss your episcopal ring.

  It is not, Monsignore,
  The fragrant memory of your holy life,
  Nor that of your shining and joyous martyrdom,
  Which causes me now to address you.
  But since this is your august festival, Monsignore,
  It seems appropriate to me to state
  According to a venerable and agreeable custom,
  That I love a beautiful lady.
  Her eyes, Monsignore,
  Are so blue that they put lovely little blue reflections
  On everything that she looks at,
  Such as a wall
  Or the moon
  Or my heart.
  It is like the light coming through blue stained glass,
  Yet not quite like it,
  For the blueness is not transparent,
  Only translucent.
  Her soul's light shines through,
  But her soul cannot be seen.
  It is something elusive, whimsical, tender, wanton, infantile, wise
  And noble.
  She wears, Monsignore, a blue garment,
  Made in the manner of the Japanese.
  It is very blue-
  I think that her eyes have made it more blue,
  Sweetly staining it
  As the pressure of her body has graciously given it form.
  Loving her, Monsignore,
  I love all her attributes;
  But I believe
  That even if I did not love her
  I would love the blueness of her eyes,
  And her blue garment, made in the manner of the Japanese.

  Monsignore,
  I have never before troubled you with a request.
  The saints whose ears I chiefly worry with my pleas
  are the most exquisite and maternal Brigid,
  Gallant Saint Stephen, who puts fire in my blood,
  And your brother bishop, my patron,
  The generous and jovial Saint Nicholas of Bari.
  But, of your courtesy, Monsignore,
  Do me this favour:
  When you this morning make your way
  To the Ivory Throne that bursts into bloom with roses
  because of her who sits upon it,
  When you come to pay your devoir to Our Lady,
  I beg you, say to her:
  "Madame, a poor poet, one of your singing servants yet on earth,
  Has asked me to say that at this moment he is especially grateful to you
  For wearing a blue gown".

  
  In Love - 83 days ago
• Wind And Window Flower
  

  Lovers, forget your love,
  And list to the love of these,
  She a window flower,
  And he a winter breeze.

  When the frosty window veil
  Was melted down at noon,
  And the caged yellow bird
  Hung over her in tune,

  He marked her though the pane,
  He could not help but mark,
  And only passed her by
  To come again at dark.

  He was a winter wind,
  Concerned with ice and snow,
  Dead weeds and unmated birds,
  And little of love could know.

  But he signed upon the sill,
  He gave the sash a shake,
  As witness all within
  Who lay that night awake.

  Perchange he half prevailed
  To win her for the flight
  From the firelight looking-glass
  And warm stove-window light.

  But the flower leaned aside
  And thought of naught to say,
  And morning found the breeze
  A hundred miles away.

  
  In Love - 114 days ago
• Love and a Question
  

  A Stranger came to the door at eve,
  And he spoke the bridegroom fair.
  He bore a green-white stick in his hand,
  And, for all burden, care.
  He asked with the eyes more than the lips
  For a shelter for the night,
  And he turned and looked at the road afar
  Without a window light.

  The bridegroom came forth into the porch
  With, 'Let us look at the sky,
  And question what of the night to be,
  Stranger, you and I.'
  The woodbine leaves littered the yard,
  The woodbine berries were blue,
  Autumn, yes, winter was in the wind;
  'Stranger, I wish I knew.'

  Within, the bride in the dusk alone
  Bent over the open fire,
  Her face rose-red with the glowing coal
  And the thought of the heart's desire.

  The bridegroom looked at the weary road,
  Yet saw but her within,
  And wished her heart in a case of gold
  And pinned with a silver pin.

  The bridegroom thought it little to give
  A dole of bread, a purse,
  A heartfelt prayer for the poor of God,
  Or for the rich a curse;

  But whether or not a man was asked
  To mar the love of two
  By harboring woe in the bridal house,
  The bridegroom wished he knew.

  
  In Love - 115 days ago