Where thou and I may dwell with love apart, "Lo in thine honour I will build a place" Stares awe-struck at the beauty of the storm. That youth with smiling face sees but thy form:Īnd, 'mid the shrieks of the fast sinking wreck,Ī poet, standing on the wave-washed deck, The first and last word of an angel's prayer.Ĭall love and lust: throiugh battle's bloody swarm The poisonous blossom of a devil's curse Hopes that with heaven's highest stars converse: "When in the lonely stillness of the tomb" "Oh heart, why wilt thou suffer evermore?" "In sleep I saw the skies at midnight red" "To list vague music float o'er moonlit meres" "Oh let me dream! Let slumber draw the bars" "Like as a stream, that, having climbed a hill" "As wine is sweet of taste to eager lips" "Oh river flowing through the silent night" "As a flower springs up out of dark and cold" "As fresh and faded leaves grown on one tree" "I dreamed that twixt two fair far-sundered spheres" "The darkness swallows up the feeble light" "How canst thou shape thy lips to call me friend?" "Lo the same moon, that lights one dreamy sky" "Is not this cruel that thou, poor child, must look" "As the faint ghost of a forgotten strain" "The sweet-souled instrument in silence stands" "My heart's love is a miser, and his hoard" "The wanderer, journeying through the midnight wood" "Loosed from strange hands into the wet wild night" "Why in her absence doth the world appear" "A cut rose set in water, poor sick wraith" "Thy picture's lips of mute and moveless art" "Ay as from dreams of some old glorious fight" "As I go musing through this mournful land" "Yes thou must die: I can but borrow thee" "Sweetest, I have not slept these two nights past" "What though I tread the thorny path of pain" "Can this our Love, as the old sage dared to deem" "There is a secret all true lovers share" "Love's folly in others seemeth such no less" "The sea's wide bounds are yet not wide enough" "Loved once for ever loved: how surely sounds" "'Noblesse oblige:' it was a simple creed" "Sweet lady mine, behold this desolate world" "The poor dumb creatures of the field, that call" "The slumberous stillness of the summer noon"
"Kisses are sweetest under covering hair" "Lo every leaf that dances in the glades" "How love ran on with us his varying course" "Hast thou, lone-standing by the forest's verge" "The primal earth, the all-pervading skies" "Since I have known you I have little heed" Love Sonnets Love Sonnets By John Barlas (pseud.