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Last Line: So to thee -- farewell!
Subject(s): Courtship


"THE BAILIFF'S [OR, BAYLIFF'S] DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "there was a youth, and a well-beloved youth"
Last Line: Whom I thought I should have seen no more
Subject(s): Courtship


A BACHELOR'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I were younger, mary jane
Last Line: And she will love me dearly!
Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Valentine's Day; Youth; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People


A BIRD IN THE HAND, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were three young maids of lee
Last Line: These three old maids of lee.
Subject(s): Courtship; Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People


A BLACKMOOR MAID WOOING A FAIR BOY, by HENRY RAINOLDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stay, lovely boy, why fly'st thou me
Last Line: And thou shalt need no other shade than I.
Subject(s): Blacks; Courtship; Love - Cultural Differences


A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 22, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And would you see my mistress' face?
Last Line: And this is that my soul pursueth.
Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Love


A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3. AMARYLLIS, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I care not for these ladies, / that must be wooed and prayed
Last Line: She never will say no.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Virginity; Vestals


A CANTO OF KHANS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider the story of khandahar khan
Last Line: Of khans who can't canter as other khans can!
Subject(s): Afghanistan; Courtship; Love


A CONSISTENT GIRL, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miss dorothea birmingham irene amanda / jones
Last Line: "and, dorothea, queenly and consistent, answered ""nope."
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Courtship; Likes & Dislikes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Single People; Male-female Relations; Bachelors; Unmarried People


A DILEMMA, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lady fair had lovers three
Last Line: "the captain answer'd, ""take the dry un."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Courtship; Women


A DRINKING SONG, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Faces prim and starched and yellow
Last Line: Hang-lip melancholy!
Variant Title(s): The Cavalier's Song
Subject(s): Bacchus; Courtship; Mythology - Classical; Youth


A FAIR NYMPH SCORNING A BLACK BOY COURTING HER, by JOHN CLEVELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand off, and let me take the air
Last Line: Than wash thy ethiopian skin.
Subject(s): Blacks; Courtship; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


A GOLDEN GIRL, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lucy is a golden girl
Last Line: On his heart the rose of women!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


A JAPANESE SERENADE, by W. RUMSEY KINNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dim bluish mountains slowly flush
Last Line: Yuki, come.
Subject(s): Courtship; Japan; Yale University; Japanese


A LIGHT WOMAN, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So far as our story approaches the end
Last Line: Here's a subject made to your hand!
Subject(s): Courtship; Loyalty


A LOVE GAME, by W. B. ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas after a game of tennis
Last Line: Our lips met over the net.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings


A LOVE SONG, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear maid, thou art with me though miles stretch between
Last Line: To love thee is human, to possess thee divine.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Passion


A LOVER TO HIS BETROTHED, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer was on the hills when last we parted
Last Line: Sweet as thy smile, and radiant as thine eyes'
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Courtship


A MAN'S WOOING, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You said, last night, you did not think
Last Line: To all eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Courtship


A MODERN DIALOGUE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, bob, it's you! They got your name all wrong
Last Line: (they ring off.)
Subject(s): Courtship; Talk; Telephones


A NOSEGAY FOR LAURA, JULY 1745, by FRANCIS FAWKES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, ye fair, ambrosial flowers
Last Line: Sweetly dying on her breast.
Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers


A PASTORAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the lane beside the mead
Last Line: In mary's breast.
Subject(s): Courtship; Nature


A PASTORAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come you, mary, there's a dear!
Last Line: Come you, mary!
Subject(s): Courtship; Nature


A PASTORAL DIALOGUE: CELIA, CLEON, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As celia rested in the shade
Last Line: The nymph fled fast away.
Subject(s): Courtship


A PICTURE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No bell and steeple - let there be for me
Last Line: The blackbird calling from his lilac tree.
Subject(s): Courtship; Public Worship; Church Attendance


A POETS' WOOING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What may I do to make you glad
Last Line: "but oh, so glad -- so glad -- so glad!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Courtship; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


A PROPER SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fain would I have a pretty thing / to give unto my lady
Last Line: "I said no harm, nor I meant no harm, / but as pretty a thing as may be"
Subject(s): Courtship


A REMINISCENCE, by JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas april; 'twas sunday; the day was fair
Last Line: Have you forgot?
Alternate Author Name(s): C., J. F.
Subject(s): Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Male-female Relations


A SIMILAR CASE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "jack, I hear you've gone and done it"
Last Line: You rejected? So was I!
Subject(s): Courtship


A SONG OF DALLIANCE, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark, my flora! Love doth call us
Last Line: The next conquest shall be thine.
Subject(s): Courtship


A SONG OF SYRINX, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little lady, whom 'tis said
Last Line: Little lady loved of pan!
Subject(s): Courtship; Curses; Magic; Mythology - Classical


A SPRING WOOING, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come on walkin' wid me, lucy; 't ain't no time to mope erroun'
Last Line: But my cabin 's talkin' fu' me ovah thaih!
Subject(s): Courtship


A SUMMER WOOING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind went wooing the rose
Last Line: Does the free wind care?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Courtship


A VALENTINE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis a song of a snowflake cold and white
Last Line: Who came one day and did gently woo / to warmth the heart of the lady
Subject(s): Courtship


A VALENTINE BALLADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fair, bashful maid without a beau
Last Line: I 'll gladly be your valentine.
Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Man-woman Relationships; Valentine's Day; Male-female Relations


A WALK, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cow-honeybourne, that dost survey
Last Line: The priestess and the bread.
Subject(s): Country Life; Courtship; Walking


A WEST-COUNTRY LOVER, by ALICE BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then, lady, at last thou art sick of my sighing
Last Line: Good-bye!
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Unrequited


A WOMAN'S WAITING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the apple-tree blossoms, in may
Last Line: O god, o heaven, how long will it be?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Courtship; Death; U.s. - History; Dead, The


A WOOING SONG OF A YEOMAN OF KENT'S SON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have house and land in kent
Last Line: For I cannot come every day to woo
Subject(s): Courtship


A YOUNG LASS'S SOLILOQUY, by REBEKAH CARMICHAEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An' so it seems it is reported
Last Line: I'll wi' them till her.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hay, Mrs.
Subject(s): Courtship


A YOUNG MAN TO AN OLD WOMAN COURTING HIM, by JOHN CLEVELAND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace, beldam eve, surcease thy suit
Last Line: An aged chronicle's new cover.
Subject(s): Almanacs; Courtship; Love - Age Differences


AARON BURR'S WOOING, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the commander's quarters on westchester
Last Line: "he'll forgive this night's tryst with the widow prevost!"
Subject(s): American Revolution; Burr, Aaron (1756-1836); Courtship


AFTER SCHOOL, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's strange to think how much may come from just / a little thing
Last Line: "and grandma says, ""oh, go to bed,—I've dropped another stitch!"
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Classmates; Courtship; Grandparents; Love - Beginnings; Past; Childhood; Schoolmates; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


AFTERWARDS, by BURTON EGBERT STEVENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ringing laugh of a joyous heart, and the glance of a smiling eye
Last Line: Will these matter to thee, thou soul set free, thou dust down under the grass?
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


AH, LASSIE FAIR!, by S. G. TENNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, lassie fair! Thine eyes of blue
Last Line: "ah, laissez faire!"
Subject(s): Courtship; Flirtation


ALONE WITH JANE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jane, in a suit of cameron plaid
Last Line: I wish I were n't alone with jane!
Subject(s): Courtship; Daughters; Family Life; Parents; Relatives; Parenthood


ALONG THE WISSAHICKON, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The red and gold and silver haze
Last Line: Along the wissahickon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Courtship


AMONG THE HEATHER, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One evening walking out, I overtook a modest colleen
Last Line: Love'll warm me as I go through the snow, among the heather.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Courtship


AMORETTI (COMPLETE), by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


AMORETTI (COMPLETE), by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


AN INVITATION TO PHYLLIS, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come live with me, and be my love
Last Line: Then live with me, and be my love.
Subject(s): Courtship; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights ; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Dramatists


AN INVITE TO ETERNITY, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, wilt thou go with me sweet maid
Last Line: We are wed to one eternity.
Subject(s): Consolation; Courtship; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


AN OLD BACHELOR, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O love is a jade of a wayward life
Last Line: As for me, I will not have the creature about.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


AN UNFINISHED PICTURE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis mary the milkmaid singing
Last Line: With richard the keeper whistling.
Subject(s): Courtship; Milk; Singing & Singers; Milkmen; Milkmaids; Songs


ANTONIO, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Antonio, antonio, / was tired of living alonio
Last Line: In the anticatartical zonio.
Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E.
Subject(s): Courtship


ANTONIO'S WOOING, by MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Me thou lovest, I know, olalla!
Subject(s): Courtship


APHRODITE'S IDENTITY CRISIS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love is greek to me now
Last Line: Sending static each to each?
Subject(s): Computers; Courtship; Life, Modern; Social Protest


APPEARANCES, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And so you found that poor room dull
Last Line: This rich room how you dropped the mask!
Subject(s): Courtship


APPLIED ASTRONOMY, by ESTHER BROWN TIFFANY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He took me out to see the stars
Last Line: Their safety lay in motion.
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Courtship


AQUARELLE AFTER WATTEAU, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shepherdess, - nay, go not yet
Last Line: Gainst your own!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses; Rain


AS A CHILD I LOVED TO SQUARE-DANCE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: After it touched a new girl's hand
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Children; Courtship; Nature; Youth


AS YOU WALK OUT ONE MORNING, by GLYN MAXWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brrring. It is the day of your proposal
Subject(s): Courtship


ASK AND HAVE, by SAMUEL LOVER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, 'tis time I should talk to your mother
Last Line: "you'd better ask me."
Variant Title(s): A Way Out Of It;how To Ask And Have
Subject(s): Courtship


AT HER WINDOW, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beating heart! We come again
Last Line: Dearest mabel! -- dearest...
Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick
Subject(s): Courtship


BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF BOBBING JOAN, by PATRICK CAREY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I ne'er yet saw a lovely creature
Last Line: Troth, I shall court the next I see.
Subject(s): Absence; Courtship


BE MINE, AND I WILL GIVE THY NAME, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Love; Courtship


BETROTHAL AT THE WALL, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At a well, a maiden (na'arah)
Subject(s): Courtship


BLUE ROSES, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shepherd in delicate dresden china
Last Line: Wait for ever her azure flowers?
Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers; Roses


BONNIE TWINKLING STARNIES!, by JAMES MCKOWEN    Poem Text                    
Last Line: With your sofy and silver light
Subject(s): Courtship


BORDERLAND, by HERMAN KNICKERBOCKER VIELE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And have you been to borderland?
Last Line: Across the river I-forget.
Subject(s): Courtship; Forgetfulness; Rivers


BREAKING THE ROADS, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About the cottage, cold and white
Last Line: And led her home a bride!
Subject(s): Courtship; Weddings


BY YON BURN SIDE, by ROBERT TANNAHILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We'll meet beside the dusky glen, on yon burn side
Last Line: There we'll meet, my ain dear jean, down by you burn side.
Subject(s): Courtship


CA' THE YOWES TO THE KNOWES', by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ye aye shall be my dearie.
Subject(s): Courtship


CAPITULATION, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night, some april seeds surrendered
Last Line: Two serpent slaves enter my life at night
Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses; Love


CAROLAN'S PROPHECY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sound of music, from amidst the hills
Last Line: A young sweet spirit gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Courtship; Harps; Musical Instruments; O'carolan, Turlough (1670-1738); Prophecy & Prophets; Women; Lyres


CATEGORICAL COURTSHIP, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sat one night beside a blue-eyed girl
Last Line: And here's the catastrophe of my story
Subject(s): Animals;cats;courtship


CHARADES: 4, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Evening threw soberer hue
Last Line: "but I never will press it again!"
Subject(s): Courtship


CHERRY TIME, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis cherry time, ripe cherry time
Last Line: I'll pick and give sweetheart to you!
Subject(s): Cherries; Courtship; Fruit; Youth


CHESKIAN ANTHOLOGY, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the turkish boundary
Last Line: "and truth was in the maiden's prayer."
Subject(s): Courtship; Deception; Turkey


CHLOE HUNTING, by SOAME JENYNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst thousands court fair chloe's love
Last Line: Than we whene'er you fly.
Subject(s): Courtship; Hunting; Hunters


CID'S COURTSHIP, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now of rodrigo de bivar great was the fame that run
Last Line: An honored husband thou shalt have in thy dead father's place
Subject(s): Courage; Courts And Courtiers; Courtship; Marriage; Victory


CITY LYRICS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come out, love - the night is enchanting!
Last Line: Is not more unhappy than I!
Subject(s): Courtship; New York City - 19th Century


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 138. 'BARRED GATE', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind barred gates
Last Line: Taking wife, who needs %the royal daughter of song?
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship; Fishing And Fishermen; Metaphor


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 158. 'CUTTING THE HAFT', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How do you cut a haft?
Last Line: And now I see her face to face, %plates and tureens in rows
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 22, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river has its forkings
Last Line: She will not stop to visit me, %and now I sing here wailing
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 24, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, how splendid
Last Line: And the grandchild of king ping
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship; Fishing And Fishermen; Metaphor


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 87. 'LIFT YOUR KILTS', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you love me dearly
Last Line: There are other squires, %o rashest of all rash young men
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 95, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O zhen and wei together
Last Line: Each will frolic with the other %and give as gift the peony
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship


COME UNDER MY PLAIDIE, by HECTOR MACNEILL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Come under my plaidie, the night's gaun to fa'
Last Line: Wad marry auld nick if he'd keep them aye braw!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneil, Hector
Subject(s): Courtship


COMMANDED BY HIS MISTRESS TO WOO FOR HER, by GIAMBATTISTA MARINI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange kind of love! That knows no president
Last Line: To love I seem not, 'cause I love too much.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marino, Giambattista; Marino, Giovanni Battista
Subject(s): Courtship


CONJUGAL CONJUGATIONS, by AMERICUS WELLINGTON BELLAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear maid, let me speak
Last Line: And our fortunes and lives let us link, as no lives could be lunk.
Subject(s): Courtship


CONVERSATIONS IN COURTSHIP, SELS., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He says: %I adore the gold-gleaming goddess
Subject(s): Courtship


CONVERSATIONS IN COURTSHIP: PLEASANT SONGS OF THE SWEETHEART: 1, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You, mine, my love
Last Line: Let us wathch my handiwork, %the two of us, together in the fields
Subject(s): Courtship


CONVERSATIONS IN COURTSHIP: PLEASANT SONGS OF THE SWEETHEART: 2, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The shrill of the wild goose
Last Line: That I myself was caught in your net?
Subject(s): Courtship


CONVERSATIONS IN COURTSHIP: PLEASANT SONGS OF THE SWEETHEART: 3, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even when the birds rise
Last Line: My life caught up with yours %your beauty the binding
Subject(s): Courtship


CONVERSATIONS IN COURTSHIP: PLEASANT SONGS OF THE SWEETHEART: 4, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Without your love, my heart would beat no more
Last Line: For when you breathe, mine is the heart that beats
Subject(s): Courtship


CONVERSATIONS IN COURTSHIP: PLEASANT SONGS OF THE SWEETHEART: 5, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With candor I confess my love
Last Line: If they roam towards me %I enter into life
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


COOKING AND COURTING; FROM TOM TO NED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "dear ned, no doubt you'll be surprised"
Last Line: "you dare to make a due demand, / why, just try cooking pies together"
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks;courtship


CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Get up! Get up for shame! The blooming morn
Last Line: Come, my corinna, come, let's go a-maying.
Variant Title(s): Going A-maying;may-day
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Death; Holidays; May (month); New Year; Spring; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence


COULEUR DE ROSE, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her soft sables, you must know
Subject(s): Time; Courtship


COUNTRY COURTSHIP, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I gazed on a beautiful picture
Last Line: Thrilled with young dreams of love.
Subject(s): Country Life; Courtship; Paintings And Painters


COURTING AND PROVERBS, by W. E. P. FRENCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When nora an' me was a-walkin'
Subject(s): Courtship; Proverbs


COURTING IN KENTUCKY, by FLORENCE EVELYN PRATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: When mary ann dollinger got the skule daown thar on injun bay
Last Line: "an' mary ann says, tremblin, yet anxious-like. ""I be."
Variant Title(s): The Schoolma'am's Courting
Subject(s): Courtship; Kentucky; Women


COURTSHIP, by FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It chanced, they say, upon a day
Last Line: As all their friends and neighbours know
Subject(s): Courtship; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


COURTSHIP AMONG THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the woodland pasture
Last Line: Beneath the moonlit sky.
Subject(s): Courtship; Cumberland Mountains


COURTSHIP AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the woodland pasture
Last Line: Beneath the moonlit sky.
Subject(s): Courtship; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


COURTSHIP OF EVE, by ROBERT CRAWFORD (?-1733)    Poem Source                    
First Line: I met her in a garden of the lord
Subject(s): Courtship


COURTSHIP [AND MATRIMONY], by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fairest of earth! If thou wilt hear my vow
Last Line: "confound those children, but I'll make them quiet"
Subject(s): Courtship;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives


CUB LOVE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am thinking tonight of the sweethearts I had
Last Line: The best in the world for my wife.
Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


CYCLE OF INANNA: THE COURTSHIP OF INANNA AND DUMAZI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I bathed for the wild bull
Last Line: May he enjoy long days in the sweetness of your holy loins
Subject(s): Courtship


DAME GUILLELMA, SEVERAL KNIGHTS TRAVELLING BY DARK, by LANFRANCS CIGALA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: But, by any means available, I challenge you to conquer me
Subject(s): Courtship; Troubadours


DANCING THE MINUET, by FRANKLIN ELMER ELLSWORTH HAMILTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Raise thy tender eyes to mine
Last Line: As we dance the minuet.
Subject(s): Courtship; Dancing & Dancers


DAR A LUZ, by PAULA C. BRANCATO    Poem Source                    
First Line: For hours, for months, for years. He's on top
Last Line: Gave suckle by the light of her womb
Subject(s): Birth; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships


DEBUTANTES, by NICOLE DONNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: That was the summer my roommate kept getting flowers
Last Line: With good posture, %and waited
Subject(s): Courtship; Debutantes; Flowers


DELUDED SWAIN, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deluded swain, the pleasure
Last Line: And then to bed in glory!
Subject(s): Courtship


DETERMINATION, by WILLIAM CLYDE FITCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Did you ever love a maid
Last Line: Seems to tempt me, I shall steal from her a kiss!
Alternate Author Name(s): Fitch, Clyde
Subject(s): Courtship; Flirtation


DON QUIXOTE: SONG, by THOMAS D'URFEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let the dreadful engines of eternal will
Last Line: And so I fairly bid 'em and the world good night.
Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Fire


DON'T, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your eyes were made for laughter
Last Line: Sweet phyllis, and love me.
Subject(s): Courtship; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


DORIS; A PASTORAL, by ARTHUR JOSEPH MUNBY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sat with doris, the shepherd maiden
Last Line: No more a servant, nor yet a child.
Variant Title(s): A Pastoral
Subject(s): Courtship


DOVECOTT MILL: 10. PLIGHTED, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the tender joy of those autumn hours
Last Line: They kept their wooing a whole sweet year.
Subject(s): Courtship


DOVECOTT MILL: 9. WOOING, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now in the waning autumn days
Last Line: God grant it may alway be the same.
Subject(s): Courtship


DOWN THE ROAD TO SALLY'S, by CHARLES CAPRON MARSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down the road to sally's
Last Line: Ends the road to sally's!
Subject(s): Courtship


DUNCAN GRAY, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Duncan gray cam here to woo
Last Line: Ha, ha! The wooing o't!
Subject(s): Courtship


EDUCATIONAL COURTSHIP, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "she was a boston maiden [or lady], and she'd scarcely passed eighteen"
Last Line: "and said, 'love, this is what I call the nowness of this'"
Subject(s): Courtship


ELSINORE, by BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have loved thee, elsinore
Last Line: Smile upon me, elsinore.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 30. THE HUNTER CAUGHT BY HIS OWN GAMER, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The busy youth pursue the timorous puss
Last Line: And to the hunted prey become a spoil.
Subject(s): Courtship; Hunting; Hunters


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 39. WON BY SUBTILTY, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life and a dearer mistress is the prize
Last Line: And a gold pippin wins a maidenhead.
Subject(s): Atalanta; Courtship; Hippomenes (mythology); Racing


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 9. LOVE A TICKLISH GAME, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Virgins are like the silver finny race
Last Line: Lay well your hooks -- and cast your nets with art.
Subject(s): Courtship; Fish & Fishing; Love; Anglers


EMPEROR OJIN'S SONG, by OJIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This crab, where is it from?
Subject(s): Courtship; Desire


ENGAGEMENT, by MERRILL ARTHUR YOTHERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beloved, I have pondered upon the meaning of your words
Last Line: And blossom -- and through death!
Subject(s): Courtship


EPIGRAM, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not in my love too soon prevail
Last Line: An easy conquest makes the purchase stale.
Subject(s): Courtship


EPIGRAM, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fate of books is diverse as man's sense
Last Line: Two critics ne'er shar'd one intelligence.
Subject(s): Courtship


EPIGRAM, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He whose advent'rous keel ploughs the rough seas
Last Line: That value wit and arts below their crimes.
Subject(s): Courtship


EPIGRAM, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When arria to her paetus had bequeath'd
Last Line: Tis thine (my paetus) grieves and kills my heart.
Subject(s): Courtship


EPIGRAM, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To what serve laws, where only money reogns?
Last Line: And the court sits, but to allow the price.
Subject(s): Courtship


EQUESTRIAN COURTSHIP, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a young maiden went forth to ride
Last Line: "but I've lost the last glimpse of the gray mare's tail!"
Subject(s): Courtship; Horseback Riding


EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: SCIENTIFIC WOOING, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was a youth of studious mind
Last Line: "a sweet ""quod erat demonstrandum!"
Subject(s): Courtship; Science; Scientists


FIDESSA: 3, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Venus, with young adonis sitting by her
Last Line: To kiss and clip me till I run away!
Subject(s): Courtship


FIRST DATE, by SCOTT MONCRIEFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember the first time I saw you
Last Line: One stuffed, one broke, on the shelf
Subject(s): Courtship; Memory


FIRST PRAISE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady of dusk-wood fastnesses
Last Line: Praising my lady.
Subject(s): Courtship


FISH IN CHAINS, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the hudson across manhattan to the triborough
Last Line: It nearly rained that's what people had to say
Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Love - Unrequited; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


FLOWERS, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some men never think of it
Last Line: Have lasted all this while
Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers; Love


FLOWERS OF AIR, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I met her, not by chance
Last Line: When my time dissolves
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


FOLK SONG: O BLANCA VIRGEN A TU VENTANA!, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o fairest maiden, approach thy window!"
Last Line: "to earth I'll turn me, to earth I'll turn me, and mine thou'lt be"
Subject(s): Courtship;love


FORFEITS, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They sent him round the circle fair
Last Line: The little maid looked satisfied.
Subject(s): Courtship


FORGET-ME-NOT, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A gallant knight and his betroth'd bride
Last Line: And it will solace me in a lonely hour.
Subject(s): Courtship; Drowning; Love - Marital; Memory; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


FOUNDATIONS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those lovers old had rare conceits
Last Line: One surety that we possess.
Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Love


FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 15, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are you what your fair looks express?
Last Line: For pure meetings are most sweet.
Variant Title(s): "are You, What Your Faire Lookes Expresse?"";
Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Truth


FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think'st thou to seduce me with words that have no meaning?
Last Line: But alas! Who less could do that found so good occasion!
Variant Title(s): "think'st Thou To Seduce Me Then"";
Subject(s): Courtship; Language; Seduction; Words; Vocabulary


FRIAR-BACON: LOVE-SUPPLANTER, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Edward, prince of wales. / lacy, earl of lincoln
Last Line: Is not of force to bury thoughts of friends....
Subject(s): Betrayal; Courtship; Friendship - False Friends; Hearts; Love; Fair Weather Friends


FRIEND LANFRANCS, AS I SEE IT HE DID BEST, by GUILLELMA DE ROSERS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: That with a woman's subtlety %I'll ward off the most covetous design
Subject(s): Courtship; Troubadours


FRIEND, IF YOU HAD SHOWN CONSIDERATION, by CASTELLOZA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I'll be in my grave, and you'll be cruelly blamed
Subject(s): Courtship; Troubadours


FROM THE FRENCH, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The color of coral and of your lips
Last Line: Permitting space and voice to go without reference
Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Flowers; Kisses; Love


FROM THREE FLY LEAVES, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah phyllis! Did I only dare
Last Line: Have written quite in vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K.
Subject(s): Courtship; Poetry & Poets


FRUIT PLUMMETS FROM THE PLUM TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Gentlemen if you want to court me, %just say the word
Subject(s): Courtship


GEORGE A GREENE: GENTLE COURTSHIPS REJECTED, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grime. I say, sir gilbert, looking on / my daughter
Last Line: For why, his colour looketh discontent.
Subject(s): Courtship


GIFTS RETURNED, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You must give back,' her mother said
Last Line: And all the kisses, to the last.
Subject(s): Courtship; Gifts & Giving; Women


GOING TO COURT, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The farm-lad quarried from the mow
Last Line: Back to his heart, and broken it.
Subject(s): Courtship


GOLDEN EYES, by RUFINUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, golden eyes, to win you yet
Last Line: Ah, golden eyes!
Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers


GREEN CRAWLER FINDS ITS WAY, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mint sends our shoots, blind worms that crawl
Last Line: Grabs hold of the rosemary %and swallows the thyme
Subject(s): Courtship; Gardens And Gardening; Love - Beginnings


HALIEUTICA [HALIEUTICKS]: EELS AND TORTOISES, by OPPIAN OF CILICIA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange the formation of the eely race
Last Line: To the loathed duties of an hated bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oppian
Subject(s): Courtship; Eels; Fish & Fishing; Reproduction; Turtles; Mating; Tortoises


HE'S GOT A GIRL, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We used to think, his ma and me
Last Line: My, how it has improved that boy!
Subject(s): Courtship; Youth


HEIGH-HO!, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pretty young maiden sat on the grass
Last Line: Heaven blesses true lovers so fairly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Brides; Courtship; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


HERE'S TO THY HEALTH, MY BONNIE LASS, by ROBERT BURNS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Courtship


HERO AND LEANDER: COURTSHIP, by GRAMMATICUS MUSAEUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amaze then tooke him
Last Line: With up and down-lookes, %whetting his desire
Subject(s): Courtship


HERO AND LEANDER: COURTSHIP, by GRAMMATICUS MUSAEUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She took the hint; (what lovers now can find
Last Line: Faintly they struggle, when their rage is gone
Subject(s): Courtship


HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 21, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The firstlings of my flock to her I gave
Last Line: Too silly shepherd so to be belov'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth
Subject(s): Courtship; Gifts & Giving


HIS ARGUMENT, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One time I wooed a maid (dear is she yet!)
Last Line: And lay thy long, soft locks where my heart is.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


HIS FIRST AFFAIR, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I told eliza mary ann
Last Line: Will go to war, and maybe die.
Subject(s): Children; Courtship; Romance; Childhood


HORTENSE: WHERINNE IS SHOWNE YE CRAFTINESSE OF HER LOVER, by FRANK JOHN URQUHART    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hortense is haughtye, and no smile
Last Line: "forsoothe, I -- I love thee."
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


HOW SHALL I WOO THEE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall I woo thee to win thee, mine own?
Last Line: For till I have won thee my heart may not rest.
Subject(s): Courtship


HOW SHALL I WOO THEE?, by CATHERINE H. ESLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: How shall I woo thee, tell me how
Last Line: And worship at thy shrine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Waterman, Catherine H.
Subject(s): Courtship


HOW TO WOO AND WIN, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would you play the manly lover
Last Line: All the gold the twain can need!
Subject(s): Courtship


I'M NOT MYSELF AT ALL!, by SAMUEL LOVER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I'm not myself at all
Last Line: Oh, I'm not myself at all!
Subject(s): Courtship


IN A BALCONY, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now! / not now!
Last Line: Con. Kiss!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jealousy; Courtship; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


IN AN AUSTRAL GULLY, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sauntering down the gully, near the meeting waters
Last Line: Who won to me the lover that shall be my bride!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Courtship; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Love - Cultural Differences


IN THE GLOAMING, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the gloaming to be roaming, where the crested waves are foaming
Last Line: As I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a dun.
Subject(s): Courtship


INFIRM, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will not go,' he said, 'for well'
Last Line: And took his hat and went to see.
Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Weariness; Fatigue


INTERESTING, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I rowed her out on the broad bright sea
Last Line: "and said: ""would you mind if I smoked too?"
Subject(s): Courtship; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


INTERLUDE, by ELSIE GLENN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'll always remember your kiss on the steps
Last Line: Moonlight—a few moments of ecstasy—thanks!
Subject(s): Courtship


JUDICIUM PARIDIS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I said, when young, 'beauty's the supreme joy'
Last Line: Renders me back a saint unto myself!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Beauty; Youth; Aging; Wisdom; Courtship; Time; Likes & Dislikes


JUPITER AND DANAEL OR, HOW TO WIN A WOMAN, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Imperial jove, who, with wonderful art
Last Line: Just open your purse, and come down with the dust.
Subject(s): Courtship


JWOHNNY, GIT OUT!; A COURTSHIP BALLAD FROM CUMBERLAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Git oot wit the', jwohnny, thou's no'but a fash
Last Line: He's a reet canny fellow, howiver I floot, %an' it's growin o' wark to say jwohnny, git oot!
Subject(s): Courtship


KATHARINE JOHNSTONE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "there was a may, and a weel-far'd may"
Subject(s): Courtship;man-woman Relationships;marriage; Male-female Relations;weddings;husbands;wives


KITTY OF THE SHERRAGH VANE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sherragh vane
Last Line: And I stayed to the weddin', bein' invited.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Courtship; Isle Of Man


LA FEMME AUX ORANGES, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The metro's song at the old cite, which bathes its belly
Last Line: Which were like smoking oil-lamps
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


LADY GERALDINE'S COURTSHIP, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear my friend and fellow-student, I would lean my spirit o'er you!
Last Line: And I shall not blush in knowing that men call him lowly born.'
Subject(s): Modern Life; Courtship


LADY MINE, by HERBERT EDWIN CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lady mine, most fair thou art
Last Line: Or thy heart is like thy head.
Subject(s): Courtship


LARRIE O'DEE, by WILLIAM W. FINK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now the widow mcgee
Last Line: And that was the courtship of larrie o'dee.
Subject(s): Courtship; Women


LASS, GIN YE LO'E ME, by JAMES TYTLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I ha'e laid a herring in saut
Last Line: And I winna come ony mair to woo.
Subject(s): Courtship


LAUZENGIERS AND THE DECEITFUL SPIES, by CLARA D'ANDUZA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I weep and I sigh; and I can't make music %with the strophes that my heart will not supply
Subject(s): Courtship; Troubadours


LES PAPILLOTTES, by GERTRUDE HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eulalia sat before the glass
Last Line: "the proper, simple message, ""come at three."
Subject(s): Courtship; Letters


LIVE IN MY HEART AND PAY NO RENT, by SAMUEL LOVER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Voureen, when your days were bright
Last Line: Live in my heart, mavourneen!
Subject(s): Courtship


LOB'S COURTSHIP, by ELIZABETH HANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As lob among his cows one day
Last Line: And he shabbed off, and said no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne
Subject(s): Courtship


LOTUS-PICKING SONG, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the side, of ruo-ye creek
Last Line: Catching sight of this, someone falters, %a heart breaking for naught
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Courtship; Lotus


LOVE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All thoughts, all passions, all delights
Last Line: My bright and beauteous bride.
Variant Title(s): Genevieve (2)
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


LOVE FOUND TWO DOORS AJAR, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love surely was not sleeping
Last Line: And singing, love, of thee.
Subject(s): Courtship; Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros


LOVE LANE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should love a maiden more
Last Line: To bless your fate -- and curse the gnats!
Subject(s): Courtship


LOVE'S COURTSHIP, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kiss, lovely celia, and be kind
Last Line: Ere they set foot in nuptial bed.
Subject(s): Courtship


LOVE'S LOGIC, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "you ask me, my dear, in your innocent way"
Last Line: "more constant and clear than the sheen of the skies, / and the color of heaven is blue"
Subject(s): Courtship


LOVE'S LOGIC (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "my dear, be sensible! Upon my word"
Last Line: "he is worth loving, for I love him so"
Subject(s): Courtship


LOVER BOYS, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the movie where indiana jones
Last Line: We couldn't even share the la-z-boy without fighting
Subject(s): Courtship; Fathers And Sons; Love Affairs; Women


LOVES ADVENTURE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love once a wooing went, & tride
Last Line: His nuptiall feast princelike to solemnize.
Subject(s): Churches; Courtship; God; Cathedrals


MADAME DELUXE'S GUIDE TO THE PLEASURES OF LEATHER, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a first date, wear oiled nubuck ankle boots
Last Line: Kick off your shoes and walk all over him
Subject(s): Courtship; Leather; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Manipulation; Shoes


MAIDEN'S CHOICE, by CAROLYN M. BARBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Billy rides in a limousine
Last Line: When he hasn't asked me to?
Subject(s): Courtship; Men


MANY SEASONS, by DEIDRA SUWANEE DEES    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's been %many seasons
Last Line: Marry %the preacher's daughter
Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love


MARJORIE'S WOOING, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The corn was yellow upon the cliffs
Last Line: "and whatever is mine, is thine, dear, thine!"
Subject(s): Courtship


MARY LEE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What ails ye, bonnie mary lee?
Last Line: Kin' jamie's faithfu' wife.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MARY VANCE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was young, and had the skill
Last Line: From shepperton to varley!
Subject(s): Courtship; Memory


METRICAL LETTER; WRITTEN FROM LONDON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Margaret! My cousin, -- nay you must not smile
Last Line: To find in heaven the things I loved on earth.
Subject(s): Courtship; Cousins; Desire; Freedom; Hope; Letters; Liberty; Optimism


MIRA TO OCTAVIA, by MARY LEAPOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair one, to you this monitor I send
Last Line: Write ballads both, and you may thrive -- adieu.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Materialism; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


MISS DIPLOMACY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm writing to you, dear, to-day
Last Line: "would one of those ""back numbers"" do?"
Subject(s): Courtship; Diplomacy And Diplomats; Letters; Longing; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


MISS FANNY MACARTNEY TO MISS PEGGY BANKS, by FRANCES (FANNY) MACARTNEY GREVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night in soft slumbers rolled gently away
Last Line: Their province is railing, but ours is pleasure.
Subject(s): Courtship; Greville, Margaret Banks (d. 1793)


MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER COURTSHIP, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When leaving eden's happy land
Last Line: Cut out of the azure of heaven!
Subject(s): Courtship


MUCH TOO CLOSE TO BEAR HIS EYES, by AMARU    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I feel my dress undoing me, %what do I do?
Subject(s): Courtship


MY BOY TAMMY, by HECTOR MACNEILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whar hae ye been a' day, my boy tammy?
Last Line: But oh! She's but a young thing just come frae her mammy
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneil, Hector
Subject(s): Courtship


MY NEIGHBOR, by GYULA ILLYES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The girl who lives next to us
Last Line: Like an animal
Subject(s): Courtship; Farm Life; Neighbors


MY VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: But once a year the fates, my dear
Last Line: To-day and all the days to come!
Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Valentine's Day


MY WOOING, by EDWIN HAMILTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: One evening, many months ago
Last Line: "she said, ""I won't!""—and isn't."
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Age Differences; Love - Unrequited


NEVER TOO LATE: THE PALMER'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old menalcas, on a day
Last Line: "the way to good is never late."
Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations


NO, THANK YOU, JOHN', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I never said I loved you, john
Last Line: No, thank you, john
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Courtship; Rejection


NOCTURNE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up to her chamber window
Last Line: Because he dared to climb!
Subject(s): Courtship


NONSENSE RHYMNES: 20, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "rejoice, rejoice, my little orange tree"
Last Line: "homely, homely, but not ignored."
Subject(s): Courtship;nonsense


NOT TO BE WON, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis said there flashes in her wit
Last Line: She breaks my heart by staying here.
Subject(s): Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


NOT-SO-STILL-LIFE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: White cherry blossoms %float the quad
Last Line: Her biting smell in his beak
Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships


NUDE IN CLAY, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like horrible amphibians into the atmosphere
Subject(s): Courtship; Likes And Dislikes; Love


NUDE IN CLAY, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like horrible amphibians into the atmosphere
Last Line: The sex of a woman that attracts man!
Subject(s): Courtship; Likes And Dislikes; Love


O BAKELITE MIZ MOON, by MACDARA WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jump a hundred times %and then get laid
Last Line: My sweet bakelite miz moon
Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love


O, COME WITH ME, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, come with me and we will bide
Last Line: Then, come! O, come!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Passion


OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 28, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose-cheeked laura, come
Last Line: Selves eternal.
Variant Title(s): Silent Music;laura
Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Seduction; Singing & Singers; Songs


OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 30, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Follow, follow
Last Line: Beg for mercy.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 7. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE THIRD EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kate can fancy only beardless husbands
Last Line: Her smooth youths she finds all hugely bearded.
Subject(s): Beards; Courtship


ODE, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like some wanton filly sporting
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Courtship; Drinks & Drinking; Wine


ODES I, 23. TO CHLOE (4), by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How happens it, my cruel miss
Last Line: You'll find the poet's love is metre.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Courtship; Fear


OF COURSE, by JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A merry shepherd lad was jock
Last Line: Of course!
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of


ON A HYMN-BOOK, by WILLIAM J. HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old hymn-book, sure I thought I'd lost you
Last Line: Mrs. Samuel jones.
Subject(s): Courtship; Hymns (as Literary Form); Irony; Public Worship; Church Attendance


ON SOME ROSES SENT ANONYMOUSLY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "who sent you to me, roses rare?"
Last Line: "a traitor in the camp, you see. / who told?- my heart"
Subject(s): Courtship


ON TAKING LEAVE OF FATHER AFTER ACCEPTING SECOND OFFER OF ENGAGEMENT, by XIE WUNIANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: First betrothed to the excellent student li
Last Line: The fisherman may not seek the ford again
Subject(s): Courtship


ON THE STAIR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We sat on the stair
Last Line: "it sounded like -- ""yes!"
Subject(s): Courtship


OUTCAST; A TALE OF A LADIES' CRICKET MATCH, by PELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out in the silent rockies
Last Line: There's a thin, sad, pale, grey hermit: %folks know him as 'jaundiced jim'
Subject(s): Courtship; Cricket (game); Man-woman Relationships; Men; Service, Robert (1874-1958); Sports


OZARK ODES: THE BOYFRIEND, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wakes in darkness of morning
Last Line: The spiders rearrange %themselves underneath
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Courtship


PAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY, by VICENTE ESPINEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: He who is both brave and bold
Last Line: Ne'er have conquered - never could
Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Likes And Dislikes; Man-woman Relationships


PEADAR OG GOES COURTING, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that I am dressed I'll go
Last Line: ...The knocker's funny -- rat-tat-tat.
Subject(s): Courtship


PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: PHILLIS AND CORIDON, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Phillis kept sheep along the western plains
Last Line: Phillis was lov'd, and she lik'd coridon.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Male-female Relations


PHILLIS INAMOROTA, by LANCELOT ANDREWES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, be my valentine
Last Line: Come, be my valentine!
Subject(s): Courtship; Holidays; Valentine's Day


PHYLLIDA AND CORYDON, by NICHOLAS BRETON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the merry month of may
Last Line: Was made the lady of the may.
Variant Title(s): Pastoral;the Ploughman's Song;phillida And Corydon
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


PICA: HOW THE LEAVES TURN GOLD, by HADARA BAR-NADAV    Poem Source                    
First Line: Resist the metaphor
Last Line: Its leaves turn bright gold
Subject(s): Courtship; Hunger; Love


PLEA, by ALICE D. LIPPMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do not woo me through the sullen years
Last Line: Or on the whispering wings of snow.
Subject(s): Courtship


POPPING CORN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "and there they sat, a popping corn"
Last Line: I'm sick of all this popping corn - / why don't you pop the question?
Subject(s): Corn;courtship


PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN WITH A BAD HEART, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have I seen her
Last Line: It'd be the best thing.
Subject(s): Hearts; Courtship


PROGRESSIVE LOVE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who says that a second is not as good?
Last Line: And its present is fire divine.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Youth


PROPOSAL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The violet loves a sunny bank
Last Line: Shall I wed thee?
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Courtship; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


PYGMALION TO GALATEA, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pygmalion spoke and sang to galatea
Last Line: "give me an equal kiss, as I kiss you."
Subject(s): Courtship; Galatea; Love; Pygmalion; Women


QUAG-HOLE, by WHITTAKER CHAMBERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He waited and, as he waited, grew less eager
Last Line: And marched to beat the silence through the wood.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of


RAPUNZEL, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Think what it must have been like for her, caged
Last Line: Brave enough, their own minds not quick enough for %them to save themselves
Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Women


RATTENAU, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That in a spell you would undress again
Last Line: Now I am your rock. %chained down
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


RENUNCIATION, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The air is full of the peal of bells
Last Line: Of the lord's bow now breaks into flower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Marriage; Courtship; Flowers; Loss; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


REQUEST TO LEDA, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not your winged lust but his must now change suit
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


REQUEST TO LEDA, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not your winged lust but his must now change suit
Last Line: The worm is (pin-point) rational in the fruit
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


RESOLUTION OF A POETICAL QUESTION CONCERNING FOUR RURAL SISTERS: 2, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marg'ret of humbler stature by the head
Last Line: Though ask'd, I know not how she would resist.
Variant Title(s): Two Rural Sisters: 2;resolution In Four Sonnets, Of A Poetical Question Put To Me By A 2
Subject(s): Courtship; Passion


RESOLUTION OF A POETICAL QUESTION CONCERNING FOUR RURAL SISTERS: 3, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary is black, and taller than the last
Last Line: Unless he offer more than she demands.
Variant Title(s): Resolution In Four Sonnets, Of A Poetical Question Put To Me By A 3
Subject(s): Courtship


RESOLUTION OF A POETICAL QUESTION CONCERNING FOUR RURAL SISTERS: 4, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Martha is not so tall, nor yet so fair
Last Line: She's no more wit to ask than to deny.
Variant Title(s): Resolution In Four Sonnets, Of A Poetical Question Put To Me By A 4
Subject(s): Courtship


RHODOCLEA'S GARLAND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This garland of fair flowers, by me
Last Line: Rhodoclea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love


RHYME OF THE DUCHESS MAY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the belfry, one by one, went the ringers from the sun
Last Line: Round our restlessness, his rest.
Subject(s): Courtship; Loyalty; Brides


RIENZI SHOWING NINA THE TOMB OF HIS BROTHER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was hidden in a wild wood
Last Line: Thus was she won.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Courtship


RORY O'MORE; OR, ALL FOR GOOD LUCK, by SAMUEL LOVER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Young rory o'more courted kathleen bawn
Last Line: "for there's luck in odd numbers,"" says rory o'more."
Variant Title(s): Rory O'more;good Omens
Subject(s): Courtship; Luck; Omens


SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 21, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where shall I refuge seek, if you refuse me?
Last Line: My only grief and kindness pity need!
Subject(s): Courtship; Anxiety


SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 66, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fain would I my love disclose
Last Line: As they are wise they will be caught.
Subject(s): Courtship


SECRETS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blonde charlotte's face is aquiline
Last Line: "that rare coquette—""which?"" you must guess!"
Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Polygamy; Secrets; Male-female Relations


SECURITY, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though her eye seek other forms
Last Line: And learn of love a new degree
Subject(s): Courtship


SERENE, by JACQUES GEORGES CLEMENCEAU LE CLERQ    Poem Text                    
First Line: No words I say to her can break
Last Line: While asking her to marry him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tanaquil, Paul
Subject(s): Courtship


SHIAWASE (II), by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like hitomaro %watching the lovely woman
Last Line: Many moons and simple songs
Subject(s): Courtship; Gratitude; Wedding Song


SIBERIAN WOOING, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bridgegroom of forty-one
Last Line: Water from the feet of lovers
Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni
Subject(s): Courtship; Siberia


SOMEBODY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Somebody's courting somebody
Last Line: "makes love to somebody, / to-night"
Subject(s): Courtship


SOMEBODY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Och hon for somebody!
Last Line: How sair I grieve for somebody
Subject(s): Courtship


SOMETHING LIKE AN ARIA, by STEVEN BARZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All through the springtime afternoon
Last Line: For the touch and love of a woman who wanders
Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Love - Loss Of


SONG, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dost thou idly ask to hear
Last Line: Love's delightful story.
Subject(s): Courtship


SONG, by WILLIAM CORKINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet cupid, ripen her desire
Last Line: Then will no more such sport be found.
Subject(s): Courtship; Time


SONG, by DOROTHEA (ANNESLEY) DUBOIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A scholar first my love implored
Last Line: Without referring to my mother.
Subject(s): Courtship; Mothers


SONG, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If to thy heart I were as near
Last Line: And kiss when nane is nigh!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Courtship


SONG, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How I envy the ring that encircles thy finger!
Last Line: I'd watch thee, and bless thee, and guard thee for aye!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Courtship


SONG (2), by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through spring-time walks, which flowers perfumed
Last Line: Draws every wish to me.
Subject(s): Courtship


SONG OF PROPOSAL, by OJIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This crab - where does it come from?
Last Line: Sitting before my eyes, %sitting at my side
Subject(s): Courtship; Desire


SONG OF PURSUIT, by GABRIEL ZAID    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am not the wind, nor the sail
Last Line: But I go following you
Subject(s): Courtship


SONG, FR. DIOCLESIAN, by JOHN FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall I do to show how much I love her?
Last Line: Never had hero so glorious a death.
Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Love


SONGS TO A WOMAN, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are like startled song-wings
Last Line: No more complete than now.
Subject(s): Courtship


SONNET TO ARISTE: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be his to court the muse, whose humble breast
Last Line: The warbling lute to sound the soul of love?
Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Muses; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul


SONNET TO JULIET: ASKING FOR HER HEART, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me thy heart, juliet, give me thy heart!
Subject(s): Courtship


SONNET: 3, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI                        Poet's Biography
First Line: O leave, cithera, thy beloved isle
Last Line: Scorning the puissant virtue of love's name
Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent
Subject(s): Courtship


SONNET: 47, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast no name, or, if a name thou bearest
Last Line: In all my loves I worshipped thee alone.
Subject(s): Courtship


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 153, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis the gallant do the wooing
Last Line: Under your eyes is not taken
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 154, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Four handkerchieves I have
Last Line: Three live deluded
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 163, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The little ewes, my mother
Last Line: Turn round when dancing
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


SPIRIT FLOWERS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear a voice, so close it makes me start
Last Line: In blasts of time.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Time; Male-female Relations


SPORT, by H. C. SOUTHWICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pretty maiden passing by
Last Line: Who may come a-passing by.
Subject(s): Courtship


STANZAS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Think'st thou, laura, then, that wealth
Last Line: In that fair form, and fairer soul of thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Courtship


STORY OF THE GATE, by HARRISON ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the pathway, myrtle-fringed
Last Line: About the gate and swing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Robertson, T. H.
Subject(s): Courtship


SUBJECT LOVE, FOR THE VASE AT BATHEASTON VILLA, by JANE BOWDLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With bow unstrung, and arrows broke
Last Line: And sense and reason shall adore.'
Subject(s): Courtship; Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Eros


SUR L'HERBE, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The abbe rambles.' - 'you, marquis'
Last Line: "do, mi.""—""the moon!—hey, how d'ye do?"
Subject(s): Courtship; Kisses


SWEET MAID OF MY DREAMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet maid of my dreams while my love seeks for thee
Last Line: From the fathomless depths I answer to thee.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings


SWEET MAY MORN, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis sweet may morn; wake, drowsy girls!
Last Line: A happy home—a husband kind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Courtship; Girls; Marriage; May (month); Morning; Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SWEET MEETING OF DESIRES, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I grew assured, before I asked
Last Line: She, answering, owned that she loved too.
Subject(s): Courtship


TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON, by GLYN MAXWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Courtship; Popular Culture; Relationships; Disappointment; Bullies


TALE: 6. THE FRANK COURTSHIP, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grave jonas kindred, sybil kindred's sire
Last Line: Wilt thou have this good youth?' 'dear father! Yes.'
Subject(s): Courtship


THE ADMIRER, by CLAUDIA EMERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He had before come courting--with pecans
Subject(s): Admiration; Courtship; Food & Eating


THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 12. PRELUDE. THE CHURL, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This marks the churl; when spousals crown
Last Line: Was not in the woman, but the chace.
Subject(s): Courtship


THE BARLEY-BIRDS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Assuredly the barley-birds
Last Line: To count each bird twice over!
Subject(s): Birds; Courtship


THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES. THE COURTIN', by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God makes sech nights, all white an' still
Last Line: In meetin' come nex' sunday.
Subject(s): Courtship; Women


THE BONNIE LASS OF RUILY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the village of ruily there lived a bonnie lass
Last Line: "then harry cried, ""merciful heaven, my heather belle is dead!"
Subject(s): Courtship; Farewell; Household Employees; Love; Parting; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE BOY'S ANSWER TO THE BLACKMOOR, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black maid, complain not that I fly
Last Line: And then I will bequeath myself to thee.
Subject(s): Blacks; Courtship; Love - Cultural Differences


THE BRAES O' BALQUHITHER, by ROBERT TANNAHILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us go lassie, go
Last Line: Mang the braes o' balquhither.
Subject(s): Courtship


THE BRIDAL OF LADY AIDEEN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O lady aideen, will you wed with me, wed with me in the early morning?
Last Line: (the banshee waits on the window-sill.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Courtship; Death; Dead, The


THE BRIDGE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood on the bridge at midnight
Last Line: And its wavering image here.
Subject(s): Bridges; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Courtship


THE BROOKSIDE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wandered by the brookside
Last Line: Was all the sound we heard.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Brooks; Courtship; Streams; Creeks


THE CAPTIVE LOVER, by HENRY LAWES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If my mistress fix her eye
Last Line: But with one good look a day.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


THE CHASE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The moon his mare, all silver-bright
Last Line: What ghostly horse shall course the sky?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Courtship; Desire


THE CLOWN'S COURTSHIP, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "quoth john to joan, will thou have me"
Subject(s): Clowns;courtship;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives


THE CLOWN'S COURTSHIP, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A comical lass I went to woo
Last Line: Who came in and politely kicked me out
Subject(s): Clowns;courtship;faces;marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives


THE COQUET MOTHER AND COQUET DAUGHTER; A SONG, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the close of the day
Last Line: And trifled no more with the rest.
Subject(s): Courtship


THE COQUETTE'S DEFENSE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red, red roses glowing in the garden
Last Line: You know and I know to whom we belong.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Courtship


THE COURTSHIP OF THE YONGHY-BONGHY-BO, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the coast of coromandel
Last Line: For the yonghy-bonghy-bo.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Nonsense


THE COWBOY AND THE MAID, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Funny how it come about!
Subject(s): Courtship;cowboys;marriage;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Weddings;husbands;wives;southwest;pacific States


THE DAWN AFTER THE DANCE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is your parents' dwelling with its curtained windows telling
Last Line: That the vows of man and maid are frail as filmy gossamere.
Subject(s): Courtship


THE DESERT WIND, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went with happy heart (how happy!) a while since
Last Line: Hath seared mine eyes.
Subject(s): Courtship; Deserts; Food & Eating; Hearts; Love


THE EARL O' QUARTERDECK, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind it blew, and the ship it flew
Last Line: Into the heaven wi' pride?
Variant Title(s): The Yerl O' Waterydeck
Subject(s): Courtship


THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE, by EMMA BOWERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two robins on the lawn
Last Line: For she flew away with the other fellow.
Subject(s): Birds; Courtship; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE EXCHANGE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We pledged our hearts, my love and I
Last Line: We had exchanged our hearts indeed.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


THE FAIR MILLINGER, by FREDERICK WADSWORTH LORING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a millinger most gay
Last Line: "thanks!"" says my millinger."
Subject(s): Courtship; Jokes; Women


THE FATAL DREAM; OR, THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE; AN ELEGY, by EMANUEL COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Weeping melpomene assist my lays
Last Line: Forgotten by his fond penelope.'
Subject(s): Courtship; Dreams; Grief; Melancholy; Mourning; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement


THE FERRY, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a gay maiden lived down by the mill
Last Line: "this moment forever to bury."
Subject(s): Courtship; Ferries


THE FOOLISH OLD MAN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A miller's daughter, as I heard tell
Last Line: He gave—a father's blessing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Courtship; Curses


THE FORBIDDEN BANNS; A BALLAD OF THE EIGHTEEN-THIRTIES, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O what's the gain, my worthy sir
Last Line: By whom the deed was done.
Subject(s): Courtship


THE FORTUNATE SPILL, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well! Johnnie thinks. He has his nerve!
Last Line: As they fall for each other, and for me
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Family Life; African Americans; Courtship; Luck; Love; Relatives


THE FRIAR OF ORDERS GRAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was a friar of orders gray
Last Line: "for since I have found thee, lovely youth, / we never more will part"
Subject(s): Courtship;homecoming;pilgrims & Pilgrimages


THE FROST ELVES, by MARY L. WOLVERTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the solemn stillness of the winter nights
Last Line: The merry frost-elves go.
Subject(s): Courtship


THE GIRL'S LAMENTATION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: With grief and mourning I sit to spin
Last Line: For my innocent days will come back no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Courtship; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


THE GOOSEBERRY BUSH, by IDELLA PURNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He brought her a hat and a little golden shoe
Last Line: Who can be running after him? Heavens! I don't know.
Subject(s): Courtship; Gifts & Giving


THE HILL OF STONES; A LEGEND OF FOUNTAINBLEU, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We two, my guide and I, through dusty ways
Last Line: About the statue of their stony queen.
Subject(s): Chivalry; Courtship; Fools; Love - Unrequited; Idiots


THE HILL ROAD, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let others take the valley road, a safe and beaten track
Last Line: Under the sun I'll take for aye, the steep hill road, with you.
Subject(s): Absence; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Prairies; Separation; Isolation; Plains


THE INQUIRY [ENQUIRY], by JOHN DYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye poor little sheep, ah! Well may ye stray
Last Line: And made myself quiet, and happy again.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


THE INVITATION, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, thrushes, blackcaps, finches, all
Last Line: Through all this leafy county!
Subject(s): Birds; Country Life; Courtship


THE KASHMIR SHAWL, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night I was in india awhile!
Last Line: For it brought far-off kashmir back to me!
Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love


THE LAIRD O' COCKPEN, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The laird o' cockpen, he's proud an' he's great
Last Line: But as yet there's nae chickens appeared at cockpen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness
Subject(s): Courtship; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE LEA [LEE] RIG, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will ye gang owr the lee-rig
Last Line: Wi you, my kind dearie o!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Courtship


THE LIGHT THAT LIES, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The time I've lost in wooing
Last Line: Is now as weak as ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Courtship; Women


THE LITTLE RED LARK, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O swan of slenderness
Last Line: Laughing on every spray.
Subject(s): Birds; Courtship; Larks; Skylarks


THE LORDS' MASQUE: THE SONG, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woo her, and win her, he that can!
Last Line: That on strange beauties venter.
Subject(s): Courtship


THE LOTUS POND, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I came at sunset to the lotus pond
Last Line: And shall gather the roots of the lotus buds close about my heart.
Subject(s): Courtship; Lotus; Love; Lotos


THE LOVER AND THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a budding grove, / in april's ear sang every bird his best
Last Line: Most comforting and gentle thoughts I had.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Nature Of; Pity; Sensibility; Tears


THE MAID SUBURBAN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I must confess that I'm afraid
Last Line: Give me the sweet suburban!
Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Suburbs; Women; Urban Life; Male-female Relations


THE MAID'S REMONSTRANCE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never wedding, ever wooing
Last Line: Not with age, but wo!
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE MARAUDERS, by JOEL T. ROGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now the sun is low, and the winds are dead
Last Line: Flapping their vans to the westward.
Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Relationships; Wandering & Wanderers


THE MISER; A MASQUE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come in
Last Line: [exeunt maskers singing.
Subject(s): Courtship; Crime & Criminals; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


THE NEVER-CERTAIN MALE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "thyrsis and milla, arm in arm together"
Last Line: "and blush'd, and ran away, and he ran after"
Subject(s): Courtship


THE NIGHT OF THE DANCE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cold moon hangs to the sky by its horn
Last Line: My vows as we wheel around.
Subject(s): Courtship


THE NIGHT-PIECE: TO JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her eyes [or, lamp] the glow-worm lend thee
Last Line: My soule I'le pour into thee!
Variant Title(s): On A Dark Road;serenade
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Erotic; Fireflies; Love; Night; Glowworms; Bedtime


THE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: If all the world and love were young
Last Line: To live with thee and be thy love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Variant Title(s): "reply To Marlow's ""the Passionate Shepherd"";answer To Marlowe;the Shepherdess Replies;the Milk-maid's Mother's Answer;
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Time; Transience; Impermanence


THE OLD BEAU, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a gay deceiver when
Last Line: He boasts about that other day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Courtship


THE ONE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are that beloved thing
Last Line: Now—I look—but cannot tell!
Subject(s): Courtship; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight


THE PASSER-BY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are as children in a field at play
Last Line: I, too, shall take the road—I wonder where?
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE, by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come live with me and be my love
Last Line: Then live with me, and be my love.
Variant Title(s): The Milkmaid's Song
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses


THE PHANTOM-LOVER [OR, WOOER], by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A ghost, that loved a lady fair
Last Line: Ever singing 'die, oh! Die.'
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


THE PHILANDERER, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere there is a girl for me
Last Line: And if I fail to cross her trail—the fault will not be mine!
Subject(s): Courtship; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE POET'S PROPOSAL, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Phyllis, if I could I'd paint you
Last Line: "paintings must be framed with gold!"
Subject(s): Courtship; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets


THE PRETTY MILKMAID, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are you going, my pretty maid?
Last Line: "nobody asked you, sir,"" she said."
Variant Title(s): Modern Maid;a Romance Of Today
Subject(s): Courtship


THE PRICE OF ABSENCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: He writes: 'in spite of summer's green
Last Line: To court another!
Subject(s): Absence; Courtship; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations


THE PROMENADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My lady promenades the drive
Last Line: And all the golden days thereafter?
Subject(s): Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


THE RATTLING BOY FROM DUBLIN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm a rattling boy from dublin town
Last Line: Chorus.
Subject(s): Courtship; Dublin, Ireland


THE REGULAR STORY, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In times prehistoric, when lovers' fond ways
Last Line: And lie to her now as he lied to her then!
Subject(s): Courtship


THE RIVALS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look heah! Is I evah tole you 'bout de curious / way I won
Last Line: "folks, heaben knows!"
Subject(s): African Americans; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Single People; Negroes; American Blacks; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE ROMANCE OF THE CARPET, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Basking in peace in the warm spring sun
Last Line: And he never was seen not more, not more.
Subject(s): Courtship; Carpets


THE ROSE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath my chamber window
Last Line: Beside a laughing boy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Courtship


THE SERENADE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wake, lady, wake!
Last Line: Sleep, lady, sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Courtship


THE SERIAL INTEREST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We thread the serial's magic maze
Last Line: "and will she marry me?"
Subject(s): Courtship


THE SHADOW, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: She flies from my shadow
Last Line: She still follows after!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


THE SHORT COURTSHIP: OR THE LUSTY WOOER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here comes a lusty wooer
Last Line: Lily bright and shine-a
Subject(s): Courtship


THE SILLER CROUN, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And ye shall walk in silk attire
Last Line: I'll lay me doun an' dee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss
Variant Title(s): In Silk Attire;the Siller Crown
Subject(s): Courtship


THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA'S WOOING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As unto the bow the cord is
Last Line: In the land of handsome women.
Subject(s): Courtship


THE SUITOR, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Miss marfy sco'n young isaac so
Last Line: By a good ol' hick'ry fiah.
Subject(s): Courtship


THE SWAN-WOMAN; A LEGEND OF THE TYROL, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I told this story once to kaiser max
Last Line: And in her bosom white a cross-bow bolt.
Subject(s): Comedy; Courtship; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Unrequited


THE TEST OF LOVE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His lady fair a lover once reproved
Last Line: "since you believe your eyes and not my word."
Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Passion


THE TOUCH STONE, by SAMUEL BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fool and knave with different views
Last Line: If she's a knave, the fool.
Subject(s): Courtship


THE TWO SUITORS, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear, I will give thee lands and gold
Last Line: With just enough of both.
Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People


THE UNATTAINABLE, by EMMETT MALOY COUNTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You are a fragile and exclusive flower
Last Line: Not to be held, but always to be cherished.
Subject(s): Courtship; Hope; Love - Cultural Differences; Optimism


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AUX ITALIENS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At paris, it was, at the opera there
Last Line: Non ti scordar di me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Variant Title(s): At The Opera
Subject(s): Courtship; France; Opera; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WIDOWER'S COURTSHIP, by ELIZABETH HANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roger a doleful widower
Last Line: And homeward went his way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne
Subject(s): Courtship; Widows & Widowers


THE WOOING, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A youth went faring up and down
Last Line: Alack and well-a-day.
Subject(s): Courtship


THE WOOING SONG OF JARL EGILL SKALLAGRIM, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright maiden of orkney
Last Line: So jarl egill bore off torf einar's bright daughter.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Courtship


THE YOUNG ROSE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The young rose which I gave thee, so dewy and bright
Last Line: She'll think the sweet night-bird is courting her still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers; Roses


THEM COUNTRY FOLKS, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, hello, jim mccracken, / come, shake er finger, do
Last Line: En murder er chicken en churn.
Subject(s): Country Life; Courtship


THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 17. A LOVER'S PLEA, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I come, sweet love, to thee
Last Line: While these cold nights freeze me dead.
Variant Title(s): Love's Request;a Lover's Plea
Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Love


THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be thou then my beauty named
Last Line: Ile love thee, serve thee, and adore.
Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Flattery; Love


THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 23, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, oh, come, my life's delight
Last Line: As swift to me as heavenly light!
Subject(s): Courtship; Desire; Love; Seduction


THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 27. LOVE, AND NEVER FEAR, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never love unless you can / bear with all the faults of man
Last Line: Then like, and love, and never fear!
Variant Title(s): Advice To A Girl
Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Complaints; Masculinity (psychology); Trust


THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. OF PLEASURE AND PAIN, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kind are her answers
Last Line: But one night went betwixt.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Waiting; Women


THIS COURTSHIP, by YVONNE CANNON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Begins with the familiar
Last Line: Unnamed love's untasted mark
Subject(s): Courtship


THREE TRIOLETS, by JOHN ALAN HAMILTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: She looks 'up to it,' quite
Last Line: Just one kiss for good-night?
Subject(s): Courtship


TO ---, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O come to my secret bower
Last Line: As in my fond arms I fold thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur
Subject(s): Charm; Courtship


TO ---, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As soon as each unquiet day
Last Line: Cushioned on that which rocked them to repose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur
Subject(s): Charm; Courtship


TO ---, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O had my folly never dared
Last Line: A soul that feels their force like mine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur
Subject(s): Charm; Courtship


TO A LADY TO ANSWER DIRECTLY WITH YEA OR NAY, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Madam, withouten many words
Last Line: And I mine own, and yours no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Yea Or Nay;to His Lady;madam, Withouten Many Words;song: 1
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


TO A SPIDER-WEB, by GEORGE HOOPER FERRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would I were a spider
Last Line: And evermore be faithful, throughout eternity.
Subject(s): Courtship


TO ALEXANDER NEVILLE, by BARNABY (BARNABE) GOOGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little fish that in the stream doth fleet
Last Line: Feed on the bait, but yet beware the hooks.
Alternate Author Name(s): Goche, Barnaby; Goghe, Barnaby; Gouche, Barnaby
Subject(s): Courtship


TO ALLIE, by EDGAR ALLEN BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Adown the crags o' high montrine
Last Line: By the sweet smile o' my allie.
Subject(s): Courtship


TO CELIA SINGING, by HENRY LAWES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Till I beheld fair celia's face
Last Line: Soft love would enter love's own ear.
Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship


TO CHLOE, COURTING HER FOR HIS FRIEND, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chloe, behold! Again I bow
Last Line: Fall to again by seeing others eat.
Subject(s): Courtship


TO COLLEGE GIRLS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The college girls of a former day
Last Line: Of today and the years before!
Subject(s): Courtship; Girls; Love; Women's Rights; Feminism


TO MISS -; CHARADE, by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings
Last Line: May its approval beam in that soft eye!
Subject(s): Courtship; Man-woman Relationships


TO MISTRESSE AMIE POTTER, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ai me! I love, give him your hand to kisse
Last Line: Wooers have tongues of ice, but burning hearts.
Subject(s): Courtship


TO MY LOVE, by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation             Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I prithee send me back my heart
Last Line: As much as she has mine.
Variant Title(s): Song
Subject(s): Courtship


TO MY PROMISED WIFE, by JOHN WALSH (1835-1881)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear maiden, when the sun is down
Last Line: Astor machree!
Subject(s): Courtship


TO ONE PERSUADING A LADY TO MARRIAGE, by KATHERINE PHILIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forbear, bold youth; all's heaven here
Last Line: More bright and large than his.
Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda
Variant Title(s): An Answer To Another Persuading A Lady To Marriage
Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO PHYLLIS [TO LOVE AND LIVE WITH HIM], by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Live, live with me, and thou shalt see
Last Line: If thou wilt love, and live with me.
Variant Title(s): The Fairies;to Phillis
Subject(s): Courtship; Love


TO PRUE: A VILLANELLE, by ALANSON BIGELOW HOUGHTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do you love me, mistress prue?
Last Line: Eves, not lips, speak ever true.
Subject(s): Courtship


TO SIR AMOROUS LA FOOL, by KATHERINE PHILIPS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bless us, here's a do indeed
Last Line: And court the careless, when with far less pain, %some wholesome milkmaid would say yours again
Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda
Subject(s): Courtship


TO THE DISTANT PRINCESS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Princesse lointaine, whose regal sway
Last Line: Princesse lointaine!
Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Passion


TRACHINIAE: DEIANTRA'S WOOING; CHORUS, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great and strong is the cyprian alway to win her
Last Line: Suddenly she is gone from her mother, like a heifer left alone.
Subject(s): Courtship


TRICKSEY'S RING, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O what a day it was to us
Last Line: And so he had them both!
Subject(s): Rings; Courtship


TRIOLET, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: How dared he do it
Last Line: To kiss those girls!
Subject(s): Courtship; Fate; Kisses; Destiny


TRIOLET: 1. WHAT HE SAID, by HARRISON ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: This kiss upon your fan I press
Last Line: Ah! Saint nitouche, you don't refuse it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Robertson, T. H.
Subject(s): Courtship; Fans; Kisses


TRIOLETS: TO HER WHOM I CALL ROSE, by ELLIOT GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shall I meet you again
Last Line: That I spoke thus unduly.
Subject(s): Courtship


TWO FABLES FROM THE OCEAN OF STUDY: 1. STORY OF THE CHANDALA GIRL, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the city of chidambaram there was a very pretty
Last Line: And her mother sent for the matchmaker
Subject(s): Courtship; Matchmaking And Matchmakers


TWO OF A KIND, by H. W. BANKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Softly the evening breezes
Last Line: "but only for two of a kind."
Subject(s): Courtship


TWO VARIATIONS ON AN OLD NURSEY RHYME: 2, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The king of china's daughter / so beautiful to see
Last Line: Has yet caught me.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Courtship; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


TWO WOMEN: AT BETROTHAL, by E. DORSET    Poem Text                    
First Line: We had found ease for all our souls' alarms
Last Line: For all her twenty years.
Subject(s): Courtship


VAIN WOOING, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Green walls of waves that tower up
Last Line: How still the dunes along the coast!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph
Subject(s): Courtship; Jealousy


VILLANCICO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "three dark maids, I loved them when"
Last Line: "axa, fatima, marien"
Subject(s): Courtship;man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


VITAS HINNULEO ME SIMILIS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, chloe, like a timid hind
Last Line: That thou shouldst own a lover.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Courtship; Fear; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers & Daughters; Male-female Relations


WHERE I A STAR, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Were I a star, I would not shine
Last Line: That she was searching heaven for me.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Stars


WHY BE AT PAINS? (WOOER'S SONG), by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why be at pains that I should know
Last Line: I plough the unknown.
Subject(s): Courtship


WIDOW MACHREE, by SAMUEL LOVER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Widow machree, it's no wonder you frown
Last Line: Och hone! Widow machree!
Subject(s): Courtship; Widows & Widowers


WIDOW MALONE, by CHARLES JAMES LEVER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you hear of the widow malone
Last Line: O, they're all like sweet mistress malone!
Subject(s): Courtship; Widows & Widowers; Women


WILLIE CHALMERS, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wi' braw new branks in mickle pride
Last Line: To you and willie chalmers.
Subject(s): Courtship


WITHOUT AVAIL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Without a veil I saw her stand
Last Line: Without avail.
Subject(s): Courtship; Flirtation; Summer


WOMEN MEN'S SHADOWS, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Follow a shadow, it still flies you
Last Line: Styled but the shadows of us men!
Variant Title(s): Song: That Women Are But Men's Shadows;the Shadow
Subject(s): Courtship; Shadows; Women


WOODS AND WOOING, by TITILOLA ALEXANDRAH SHONEYIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are of the same earthly kind
Last Line: Like a slug
Subject(s): Courtship


WOOED AND WON, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maiden has listened to loving words
Last Line: "for my hope, with its sweet uncertainty!"
Subject(s): Courtship


WOOING IN A DREAM, by NICHOLAS BRETON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall we go dance the hay, the hay
Last Line: But I waked -- and all was done.
Variant Title(s): A Report Song
Subject(s): Courtship


WOOING TIME, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wizard, wizard, tell me clear
Last Line: "to woo the maiden that loves you true."
Subject(s): Courtship


WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I loved a maid (oh, she was fair of face!)
Last Line: I learned the maiden some one else had married!
Subject(s): Courtship; Language; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Time; Words; Vocabulary


ZEAL REQUIRED IN LOVE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'le doe my best to win, when'ere I wooe
Last Line: That man loves not, who is not zealous too.
Subject(s): Courtship; Love