Love and Relationships Poetry

• WWTP: "Pale grew thy cheek and cold/Colder thy kiss"
• WWTP: "Long,long shall I rue thee/too deeply to tell"
• LP: "The fountains mingle with the river/And the rivers with the Ocean"
• LP: "And the sunlight clasps the earth/And the moonbeams kiss the sea"
• LP: "What are all these kissings worth/If thou kiss not me?"
• LP: "see the mountains kiss high heavens"
• LP: "Why not I with thine?"
• PL: "The rain set early in to-night/ The sullen wind was soon awake"
• PL: "I wound/Three times her little throat around/And strangled her"
• PL: "And all night long we have not stirred/And yet God has not said a word"
• PL: "she was mine, mine!"
• PL: "The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite"
• S29: "My thoughts do twine and bud/About thee, as wild vines,about a tree"
• S29: "And let these bands of greenery which inspire thee/Drop heavily down, - burst, shattered, everywhere!"
• S29: "I do not think of thee - I am too near thee"
• NT: "We stood by a pond that winter day"
• NT: "The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing/Alive enough to have strength to die"
• NT: "And a pond edged with grayish leaves"
• NT: "had fallen from an ash and were grey"
• LFY: "You out there, in the cold, seeing the seasons/turning"
• LFY: "My heartfull of headlines/feeding words onto a blank screen"
• LFY: "Watching the same news in different houses/our souls tap out messages across icy miles"
• LFY: "it's you that sends me word of that other world"
• FB: "I chose a maid/Too young maybe-but more's to do/At harvest-time than bide and woo"
• FB: "Like the shut of a winter's day/Her smile went out, and twasn't a woman-"
• FB: "We chased her, flying like a hare"
• FB: "Shy as a leveret, as swift as he"
• FB: "her eyes, her hair, her hair!"
• WA: "A sunny day with leaves just turning"
• WA: "A half-fledged thing set free/Into a wilderness"
• WA: "That hesitant figure, edging away/Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem"
• WA: "I have had worse partings, but none that so/Gnaws at my mind still"
• WA: "like a satellite wrenched from its orbit"
• ER: "They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock"
• ER: "The sky whitens as if lit by three suns"
• ER: "They beckon me from the other bank"
• ER: "Crossing is not as hard as you might think"
• F: "His shoulders globed like a full sail strung"
• F: "I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake"
• F: "I was a nuisance, tripping, falling/Yapping always"