Love poetry

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May I print a kiss on your lips? I said

And she nodded her full permission

So we went to press and I rather guess

We printed a full edition

Joseph Lihenthat

The Power of Love

Across the gateway of my heart

I wrote «No thoroughfare»

But love came laughing by and cried

«I enter everywhere »

Herbert Shiman

Jenny kissed me

Jenny kissed me when we met

Jumping from the chair she sat in;

Time, you thief! Who love to set

Sweets into your list, put that in:

Say I'm weary, say I'm sad.

Say that health and wealth have missed me,

Say I'm growing old, but add –

Jenny kissed me!

Lrigh Hunt

Always merry an April girl

Praise the spells and bless the charms,

I found April in my arms.

April golden, April cloudy.

Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy,

April soft in flowered languor,

April cold with sudden anger,

Ever changing, ever true –

I love April. I love you.

Ogden Nash

At First Sight

Should I speak unthinkingly,

Rashly, outwardly

Or look, wordlessly?

Move determinedly

Or wait patiently?

She sighs slightly?

I turn anxiously.

She sits quietly

Smiling distantly.

Either lie, passionately,

Or not lie, fruitlessly,

I pause, two-mindedly.

To love wishfully,

Blindly, entirely,

Self-transformingly;

Or to stay truthfully

In doubt, wishfully,

Doomed to reality.

Her face, held beautifully,

Looks at me questioningly.

I watch her, wonderingly

To love recklessly,

Hazarding certainty,

Loosing identity;

Or to feel warily –

Vows made conditionally,

Words weighted carefully?

She looks up suddenly,

Her eyes speaking clearly

My thought, completely.

Poised unbelievably,

We touch magically,

And light strikes, blindingly.

Alastair Reid

To my Valentine

More than a catbird hates a cat,

Or a criminal hates clue,

Or Axis hates the United States,

That's how much I love you.

I love you more than a duck can swim,

And more a grapefruit squirts,

I love you more than gin rummy is bore,

And more than a toothache hurts.

As a shipwrecked sailor hates the sea,

Or a juggler hates a shove,

As a hostess detests unexpected guests,

That's how much I love you.

I love you more than a wasp can sting,

And more than subway jerks,

I love you as much as beggar needs a crutch

And more than a hangnail irks.

I swear to you by the stars above,

And bellow, if such there be,

As the High Court loathes perjuries oaths,

That's how much I love you.

Ogden Nash

The Look

Stephan kissed me in the spring,

Robin in the fall,

But Colin only looked at me

And never kissed at all.

Stephan's kiss was lost in jest,

Robin's lost in play

But the kiss in Colin's eyes

Haunts me night and day.

Sara Teasdate

Bargain

I'd gladly lose me to find you.

I'd gladly give up all I had

To find you. I'd suffer anything

And be glad.

I'd pay any price just to get you.

I'd work all my live and I will

To win you, I'd stand naked,

Stoned and stabbed.

I'd call that a bargain

The best I ever had.

I'd gladly lose me to find you.

I'd gladly give up all I got

To catch you. I'm gonna run

And never stop.

I'd pay any price just to win you.

Surrender my good life bad.

To find you. I'm gonna drown

An unsung man

I'd call that a bargain

The best I ever had.

I sit looking round.

I look at the face in the mirror.

I know I'm worth nothing

Without you,

And like one and one

Don't make two;

One and one make one,

And I'm looking for

Your free ride to me…

I'm looking for you.

Pete Townshend

Good night

Good night? Ah! no; the hour is ill

Which serves those it should unite,

Let us remain together still

Then it will be good night.

How can I call the lone night good,

Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight?

Be it not said, thought, understood,

Then it will be good night.

To hearts which hear each other move

From evening close to morning light,

The night is good because, my love,

They never say good-night.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Night

The night has a thousand eyes,

And the day but one;

Yet the light of the bright world dies

With the dying sun.

The mind has thousand eyes

And the heart but one;

Yet the light of a whole life dies,

When love is done.

Francis Wiffiam Bourdillon

Destiny

Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours

For one lone soul another lonely soul,

Each choosing each through all the weary hours

And meeting strangely at one sudden goal.

Then blend they, like green lives with golden flowers

Into one beautiful and perfect whole;

And life's long night is ended and a way

Lies open onward to eternal day.

Edwin Arnold

“Some say kissing is a sin,

but if it was na lawful, lawyers would na allow it;

If it was na holy, ministers would na do it;

If it was na modest, maidens would na take it;

If it was na plenty, puir folk would na get it. ”

Robert Burns

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Speak to me with your hands

Speak to me with your eyes...

White in the reeds the swan sings

An hour before it dies.

Speak to me with your heart

And your simple breath...

The cactus blooms in dessert

An hour before its death.

Over the dark water

Flies the returning dove

Holding the morning in its beak

Speak to me with your love

John Smith

The fountains mingle with the river

And the rivers with the ocean

The Winds of Heaven mix forever

With a sweet emotion;

Nothing in the world is single;

All things by a law divine

In one spirit meet and mingle

Why not I with thine?

See the mountains kiss high Heaven

And the waves clasp one another;

No sister-flower would be forgiven

If it disdained its brother;

And the sunlight clasps the earth

And the moonbeams kiss the sea:

What is all this sweet work worth

If thou kiss not me? Percy Bysshe Shelly

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