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
Thomas Ford
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
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 Hood

Ruth

She stood breast high amid the corn,
Clasped by the golden light of morn,
Like the sweetheart of the sun,
Who many a glowing kiss had won.

On her cheek an autumn flush,
Deeply ripened; such a blush
In the midst of brown was born,
Like red poppies grown with corn.

Round her eyes her tresses fell,
Which were blackest none could tell,
But long lashes veiled a light,
That had else been all too bright.

And her hat, with shady brim,
Made her tressy forehead dim;
Thus she stood amid the stooks,
Praising God with sweetest looks:


Sure, I said, heaven did not mean,
Where I reap thou shouldst but glean,
Lay thy sheaf adown and come,
Share my harvest and my home.
 

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