Romantic Poetry
Romantic poetry spans cultures and centuries — from the Persian ghazals of Hafez and Rumi to the English sonnets of Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from the…
"Ah whither, Love, wilt thou now carry me? What wontless fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast, too full of thee? Whilst seeking to aslake t"
"YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull rymes, That even the greatest"
"AH whither, Love, wilt thou now carry me? What wontless fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast, too full of thee? Whilst seeking to aslake t"
"When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; -- When the angry breakers roar As they"
"All night a door floated down the river. It tried to remember little incidents of pleasure from its former life, like the time the lovers leaned again"
"SOME eyes condemn the earth they gaze upon: Some wait patiently till they know far more Than earth can tell them: some laugh at the whole As folly of"