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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COURTSHIP Matches Found: 441 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "LOVE ME LITTLE, LOVE ME LONG", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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: Moonlighta few moments of ecstasythanks! 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 homea 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 gavea 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: NowI lookbut 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 roadI 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 trailthe 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 |
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