romantic poems

 Geoffrey Chaucer
Charles of Orleans
Sir Phillip Sidney
John Lyly
William Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Christopher Marlowe
Sir Walter Ralegh
John Donne
Michael Drayton
George Wither
Robert Herrick
Edmund Waller
Andrew Marvell
Thomas Stanley
John Wilmot
Aphra Behn
John Dryden
Sir Charles Sedley
Sir Matthew Prior
Alexander Pope
Lady Mary Montagu
Franny Greville
Walter Savage Landor  
John Keats
Thomas Hood
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lord Byron
William Blake
George Crabbe
William Wordsworth
John Clare
Robert Browning
Lord Tennyson
Emily Bronte
Matthew Arnold
Christina  Rossetti
Thomas Hardy
Robert Bridges
Alfred Edward Housman

Romantic Poems throughout the ages.

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Thomas Ford

There is a Lady Sweet and Kind

There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleas'd my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Her gesture, motion and her smiles,
Her wit, her voyce, my heart beguiles,
Beguiles my heart, I know not why,
And yet I love her till I die.

Her free behaviour, winning lookes,
Will make a Lawyer burne his bookes.
I touchd her not, alas, not I,
And yet I love her till I die.

Had I her fast betwixt mine armes,
judge you that thinke such sports were harmes,
Wer't any harm? no, no, fie, fie!
For I will love her till I die.

Should I remaine confined there,
So long as Phebus in his sphere,
I to request, she to denie,
Yet would I love her till I die.

Cupid is winged and doth range,
Her countrie so my love doth change,
But change she earth, or change she skie,
Yet will I love her till I die.
 

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