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
Thomas Hood
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lord Byron
William Blake
George Crabbe
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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William Wordsworth

A Complaint

There is a change-and I am poor;
Your love hath been, nor long ago,
A fountain at my fond heart's door,
Whose only business was to flow;
And flow it did; not taking heed
Of its own bounty, or my need.

What happy moments did I count!
Blest was I then all bliss above!
Now, for that consecrated fount
Of murmuring, sparkling, living love,
What have I? shall I dare to tell?
A comfortless and hidden well.

A well of love-it may be deep
I trust it is,-and never dry:
What matter? if the waters sleep
In silence and obscurity.
- Such change, and at the very door
Of my fond heart, hath made me poor.
 

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