LOVE POEMS, MOM POEMS and WAR POEMS

February 23 by David Lehman

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:18:10 +0000

Light rain is falling in Central Park
but not on Upper Fifth Avenue or Central Park West
where sun and sky are yellow and blue
Winds are gusting on Washington Square
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Café Comedy by Robert William Service

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:16:27 +0000

She

I’m waiting for the man I hope to wed.
I’ve never seen him - that’s the funny part.
I promised I would wear a rose of red,
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A Song Of The Sandbags by Robert William Service

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:14:30 +0000

No, Bill, I’m not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh
(The cove be’ind the sandbags ain’t a death-or-glory cuss).
And though I strafes ‘em good and ‘ard I doesn’t ‘ate the Boche,
I guess they’re mostly decent, just the same as most of us.
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To the True Romance by Rudyard Kipling

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:13:01 +0000

Thy face is far from this our war,
Our call and counter-cry,
I shall not find Thee quick and kind,
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The Romantic Age by Ogden Nash

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:10:39 +0000

This one is entering her teens,
Ripe for sentimental scenes,
Has picked a gangling unripe male,
Sees herself in bridal veil,
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To Lady Jane by Vachel Lindsay

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:09:33 +0000

Romance was always young.
You come today
Just eight years old
With marvellous dark hair.
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Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:08:15 +0000

I WILL make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
I will make a palace fit for you and me,
Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.
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No Romance sold unto by Emily Dickinson

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:06:49 +0000

No Romance sold unto
Could so enthrall a Man
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To Romance by Lord Byron

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:04:47 +0000

Parent of golden dreams, Romance!
Auspicious Queen of childish joys,
Who lead’st along, in airy dance,
Thy votive train of girls and boys;
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The Tear by Lord Byron

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:02:44 +0000

When Friendship or Love
Our sympathies move;
When Truth, in a glance, should appear,
The lips may beguile,
With a dimple or smile,
But the test of affection’s a Tear:
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