Love Poems

Centuries of the love lyric — Browning’s sonnets, Millay’s candor, Neruda’s ardor — the poems people still copy out by hand.

The verse of longing and devotion

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• Tortoise Shell (Reptiles)
• Brâncuși's Golden Bird
• Double Carnations
• Spring Song
• The Eater of Souls
• The Good Rich Man
• De M. Antonio
• Lessons for a Child
• The Crocuses
• A Proof of Love
• Song of the First Train Through
• Anacreon's Grave
• An Ancient Pledge
• A Letter to Anne
• Where is Mary Alice Smith?
• Two Sonnets to the June-Bug
• Brookland Road
• Monody (Poems from Timoleon)
• The Fiddler of Dooney
• The Sheep-Washers' Lament
• A Cameo
• The Spirit
• The Escape
• The Spirits of our Fathers
• His Heatless Room
• Main Street by Moonlight
• Safely through Another Week
• Derne
• Away, Away, Ye Notes of Woe!
• A Rose
• To My Father
• To a Young Beauty
• Ode to Enchanted Light
• Plaint of the Missouri 'Coon in the Berlin Zoological Gardens
• From the Portuguese, Tu MI Chamas
• The Heart of Grief
• Handsome Nell
• Montgomerie's Peggy
• The Ronalds of the Bennals
• Here's to Thy Health
• The Lass of Cessnock Banks
• Bonie Peggy Alison
• Mary Morison
• The Rigs o' Barley
• Song Composed in August
• My Nanie, O
• Green Grow the Rashes
• The Mauchline Lady
• My Girl she's Airy
• The Belles of Mauchline
• Tho' Cruel Fate should Bid Us Part
• Young Peggy Blooms
• Her Flowing Locks
• For a' That
• Merry Hae I been Teethin a Heckle
• The Rantin' Dog, the Daddie o'T
• Here's his Health in Water
• The Lament
• Will Ye Go to the Indies, my Mary?
• My Highland Lassie, O
• Farewell to Eliza
• The Lass o' Ballochmyle
• Lines to an Old Sweetheart
• The Farewell
• Willie Chalmers
• Yon Wild Mossy Mountains
• My Lord a-Hunting
• The Banks of the Devon
• Braving Angry Winter's Storms
• My Peggy's Charms
• Sylvander to Clarinda
• Love in the Guise of Friendship
• Clarinda, Mistress of my Soul
• To the Weavers Gin Ye Go
• Stay my Charmer
• How Long and Dreary is the Night
• Hey, the Dusty Miller
• The Lad they Ca' Jumpin John
• Talk of him that's Far Awa
• The Winter it is Past
• The Bonie Lad that's Far Awa
• Verses to Clarinda
• Of a' the Airts the Wind can Blaw
• To Alex. Cunningham, Esq., Writer
• Anna, Thy Charms
• The Day Returns
• O, were I on Parnassus Hill
• I Reign in Jeanie's Bosom
• It is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face
• My Bonie Mary
• The Parting Kiss
• Sappho Redivivus-A Fragment
• She's Fair and Fause
• Beware o' Bonie Ann
• Delia, an Ode
• The Gard'Ner Wi' his Paidle
• On a Bank of Flowers
• Young Jockie was the Blythest Lad
• Jamie, Come Try Me
• I Love my Love in Secret
• Sweet Tibbie Dunbar
• The Captain's Lady
• John Anderson, my Jo
• My Love, she's but a Lassie Yet
• Tam Glen
• My Eppie Adair
• Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
• I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen
• Highland Harry Back Again
• A Waukrife Minnie
• The Captive Ribband
• To Mary in Heaven
• The Gowden Locks of Anna
• Out over the Forth
• The Banks o' Doon (First Version)
• The Banks o' Doon (Second Version)
• The Banks o' Doon (Third Version)
• Damon and Sylvia
• My Bonie Bell
• Sweet Afton

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