Love Poetry First Lines
Poems of love and friendship
Last night, when at parting
RF Murray - short poem on love and friendship.
Violets, shy violets!
George Meredith - beautifully evoked romantic imagery.
I dreamt I was in love again
Rupert Brooke - of lost love and passing pain.
I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong,
Alice Meynell - Renouncement, love break-up.
The moon is alone in the sky
George Meredith - soft images of remembered love.
Whene'er I try to read a book,
RF Murray - about being in love, passions and obsession.
I came back late and tired last night
Rupert Brooke - romantic longing shapes our thoughts.
My Peggy's face, my Peggy's form,
Robert Burns - on Peggy's immortal charms ...
The way that lovers use is this;
Rupert Brooke - on as yet unknown love.
Under boughs of breathing May,
George Meredith - will I ever find my heart's desire?
I took a Rosebud from a certain bower,
Henry Timrod - spelling names in flowers ...
For him who struck thy foreign string,
Emily Bronte - romantic lines of lingering love ...
My Love in her attire doth show her wit,
Anon - a funny love poem (well, I thought so!).
What should I say?
Sir Thomas Wyatt - betrayal and unfaithfulness.
Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams:
Sir Walter Raleigh - deep affection in the silent lover.
Cupid and my Campaspe play'd
John Lyly - Cupid loses all ...
My true love hath my heart, and I have his,
Sir Philip Sidney - a short romantic poem about true love.
Love guards the roses of thy lips
Thomas Lodge - courting is hard and unforgiving!
Love is a sickness full of woes,
Samuel Daniel - reflections on the nature of love.
I pray thee, leave, love me no more,
Michael Drayton - you want your life back?!
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
William Shakespeare - you might as well leap now as later.
When in the chronicle of wasted time
William Shakespeare - classic love poem from the Bard.
Stay, O sweet and do not rise!
John Donne - love lines to savour.
O western wind, when wilt thou blow
Anon - passed innocence ...
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