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Poems About Falling In Love

Table of Contents

  1. Shovelling Snow by Harry Edward Mills
  2. Our Friendship by Ellen P. Allerton
  3. The Captive by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
  4. His Letter by Ruby Archer
  5. Is Loving Like This? by Ruby Archer
  6. Summer and You by Ruby Archer
  7. O Faithless One by Ruby Archer
  8. The Bait by John Donne
  9. Love's Secret by William Blake
  10. Love's Defect by Scottie McKenzie Frasier
  11. Query by Georgia Douglas Johnson
  12. What Need of Words by Charles Swain
  13. Bedouin Love Song by Bayard Taylor
  14. Love At First Sight Poems

  15. The Door of Dreams by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  1. Shovelling Snow

    by Harry Edward Mills

    Sparkling eyes, cheeks aglow,
    See him shovelling through the snow.
    Few will tread his opened way,
    None his labors will repay;

    Hear him humming soft and low,
    As he shovels in the snow.

    At a humble window see
    Picture fair as fair can be;
    Maidenhood in rustic bloom
    Standing by an idle broom.

    How the blushes come and go
    As she sees the flying snow.

    Simple hearts so young and warm,
    Love has taken you by storm.
    May the winters as they roll,
    Closer bind you soul to soul;

    May your heaven here below
    Be as spotless as the snow.

  2. Our Friendship

    by Ellen P. Allerton

    They say true friendship changeth not,
    But grows and grows;
    Through chance, and time, and treacherous plot,
    Through change of scene and change of lot,
    Still changeless shows.

    If this be true, sure here is seen
    Some great mistake!
    The friend of years no friend hath been,
    Else naught on earth could come between,
    The bond to break.

    Am I, then, false? I meant no lie;
    Yet nevermore
    With friendship on my lip, can I,
    As oft aforetime, seek thine eye,
    Or cross thy door!

    Dost marvel why? 'Tis quickly told.
    Here at thy feet
    I fling away our friendship old,
    Because henceforth our two hearts hold
    A tie more sweet!

    I love thee! therefore can we be
    No longer friends.
    Thou takest what I offer thee—
    Thy whole heart's sweetness givest me.
    So friendship ends.

  3. The Captive

    by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

    Only a day ago, it seems,
    The world was a wide, wide place,
    And all my thoughts could wander far
    On the four winds of space.

    But now my thoughts are captive birds
    That have no will for flight,
    You shut them fast within your heart
    All on an April night.

  4. His Letter

    by Ruby Archer

    Down in the grass I found her,
    Above a letter bent;
    The autumn leaves around her
    Their soft mosaic blent.

    She read the letter slowly,
    As one that sips a joy.
    I felt intruder wholly,
    And certain to annoy.

    She gave me loving greeting,
    And drew me to her side,
    While up her cheek went fleeting
    A flow of rosy tide.

    "I am so happy, Dearie,"
    I heard her softly say,
    "So happy, happy, Dearie,—
    His letter came to-day!"

    And all she told me of it
    I have in mind so well;
    She whispered me above it—
    "—"—I promised not to tell!

  5. Is Loving Like This?

    by Ruby Archer

    Rhythmical meeting of fingers,
    Perfect according of thought,
    Feeling of presence that lingers,
    All with a fine meaning fraught.

    Brain in a sweet measure ringing,
    Heart in a rapture of pain,
    Arms that lie heavy in clinging,
    Bounty that gives but to gain.

    Eyes with a warm languor gleaming,
    Lips that must kiss, ah—must kiss,—
    This is the love of my dreaming.
    Tell me, is loving like this?

  6. Summer and You

    by Ruby Archer

    Summer is dead—and yet, my own,
    It lives in you.
    You are my flowers, and sunny hours,
    And skies all blue.

    Rose-laden breeze among the trees,
    Your whispered words.
    You are my brooks, and forest nooks,
    And singing birds.

  7. O Faithless One

    by Ruby Archer

    Thy face away I see more clearly
    Than those that lean above.
    Thy merest word I hold more dearly
    Than others' vows of love.

    More dear than many an eager token
    Thy failing, howe'er wept;
    More precious far thy promise broken
    Than any other's kept.

  8. The Bait

    by John Donne

    Come live with me, and be my love,
    And we will some new pleasures prove
    Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
    With silken lines, and silver hooks.

    There will the river whispering run
    Warm'd by thy eyes, more than the sun;
    And there the 'enamour'd fish will stay,
    Begging themselves they may betray.

    When thou wilt swim in that live bath,
    Each fish, which every channel hath,
    Will amorously to thee swim,
    Gladder to catch thee, than thou him.

    If thou, to be so seen, be'st loth,
    By sun or moon, thou dark'nest both,
    And if myself have leave to see,
    I need not their light having thee.

    Let others freeze with angling reeds,
    And cut their legs with shells and weeds,
    Or treacherously poor fish beset,
    With strangling snare, or windowy net.

    Let coarse bold hands from slimy nest
    The bedded fish in banks out-wrest;
    Or curious traitors, sleeve-silk flies,
    Bewitch poor fishes' wand'ring eyes.

    For thee, thou need'st no such deceit,
    For thou thyself art thine own bait:
    That fish, that is not catch'd thereby,
    Alas, is wiser far than I.

  9. Love's Secret

    by William Blake

    Never seek to tell thy love,
    Love that never told can be;
    For the gentle wind doth move
    Silently, invisibly.

    I told my love, I told my love,
    I told her all my heart,
    Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.
    Ah! she did depart!

    Soon after she was gone from me,
    A traveller came by,
    Silently, invisibly:
    He took her with a sigh.

  10. Love's Defect

    by Scottie McKenzie Frasier

    I can forgive the years for robbing me of youth,
    I can forgive man for taking my faith and deceiving truth.
    I can forgive friends for being ungrateful and unkind,
    I can't forgive Life for giving me love and making love blind.

  11. Query

    by Georgia Douglas Johnson

    Is she the sage who will not sip
    The cup love presses to her lip?
    Or she who drinks the mad cup dry,
    And turns with smiling face—to die?

  12. What Need of Words

    by Charles Swain

    What need of words when lovers meet?
    What need of sighs and glances sweet?
    As long as faithful hearts can beat,
    So long—so well—I'll love thee;
    Though other eyes may glance around,
    The chord by which the heart is bound
    No prying eye as yet hath found—
    None know how much I love thee.

    Why should I speak, or thou reply?
    I ask not words when thou art nigh;
    Oh! more than life, or earth, or sky,
    I dearly, dearly love thee;
    Thou need'st not speak—my heart appears,
    As it had eyes, and tongue, and ears;
    And, like the music of the spheres,
    I hear it say—"thou lov'st me!"

  13. Bedouin Love Song

    by Bayard Taylor

    From the Desert I come to thee
    On a stallion shod with fire;
    And the winds are left behind
    In the speed of my desire.
    Under thy window I stand,
    And the midnight hears my cry:
    I love thee, I love but thee,
    With a love that shall not die
    Till the sun grows cold,
    And the stars are old,
    And the leaves of the Judgment
    Book unfold!

    Look from thy window and see
    My passion and my pain;
    I lie on the sands below,
    And I faint in thy disdain.
    Let the night-winds touch thy brow
    With the heat of my burnings sigh,
    And melt thee to hear the vow
    Of a love that shall not die
    Till the sun grows cold,
    And the stars are old,
    And the leaves of the Judgment
    Book unfold!

    My steps are nightly driven,
    By the fever in my breast,
    To hear from thy lattice breathed
    The word that shall give me rest.
    Open the door of thy heart,
    And open thy chamber door,
    And my kisses shall teach thy lips
    The love that shall fade no more
    Till the sun grows cold,
    And the stars are old,
    And the leaves of the Judgment
    Book unfold!

  14. Love At First Sight Poems

  15. The Door of Dreams

    by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

    I often passed the Door of Dreams
    But never stepped inside,
    Though sometimes, with surprise, I saw
    The door was open wide.

    I might have gone forever by,
    As I had done before,
    But one day, when I passed, I saw
    You standing in the door.

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