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Mood: Love

Poems about love from the Scottish Poetry Library online collection.

Music, When Soft Voices Die - by Percy Bysshe Shelley

{ Poem }

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
/ Are heap’d for the belovèd’s bed;
/ And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
/ Love itself…

Lyric IX from ‘Jane’ - by Stuart MacGregor

{ Poem }

When the first darkness creeps upon the floor
/ Your comfort filters green into my nostrils,
/ There is no need to ask for…

‘Today…’ - by Donny O’Rourke

{ Poem }

Today
/ If Eco has his way
/ Only in inverted commas can Valentines say
/ ‘I love you’
/ Which I do
/ It’s true
/ And darling please feel free…

‘Kiss me…’ - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes,
come on, let us sway together,
under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

‘suddenly spring…’ - by Alan Spence

{ Poem }

suddenly spring –
/ my heart and the river,
/ full to bursting
/ …

‘Keeping and forgetting time…’ - by Gael Turnbull

{ Poem }

Keeping and forgetting time,
/ my pulse to your pulse, rhythm and rhyme
/ …

Geese - by Ian McFadyen

{ Poem }

That I choose you or
/ you choose me to
/ make our lives together is
/ a lie:
/
/ whatever binds us
/ is whatever holds…

Real Presence - by Nan Shepherd

{ Poem }

Clear as the endless ecstasy of stars
/ That mount for ever on an intense air;
/ …

And Yet Again - by Esther Phillips

{ Poem }

Tonight I want to offer you
/ this moonlight cupped in a purple
/ flower; this chorus of crickets
/ holding no grudge…

The Brooch - by Mririda n’Ait Attik

{ Poem }

Grandmother, grandmother,
/ Since he left I think only of him
/ And I see him everywhere
/ He gave me a fine silver brooch
/ And when…

Echo & Elixir 5 - by Khaled Mattawa

{ Poem }

Maybe love is a walk to astonishment.
/ Or a ship stranded on the shore of oblivion.
/ The infinity in the atom,
/ the treasures…

For Bet Gaitherin Strawberries - by Alastair Mackie

{ Poem }

The rain was sliverin on the windae pane
/ when you gaed oot tae pick strawberries,
/ reid pockit moons, for the denner…

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