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Mood: Love

Poems about love from the Scottish Poetry Library online collection.

The Peasant Declares His Love - by Émile Roumer

{ Poem }

High-yellow of my heart, with breasts like tangerines,
/ you taste better to me than eggplant stuffed with crab,
/ you are the tripe…

Nyanken Hne - by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

{ Poem }

My husband, Nyanken Hne,
/ like galo, waving up Dolokeh’s hills.
/ The storms cannot touch him;
/ they fear him like a wife fears a…

‘An Iranian professor I know asked me…’ - by Mimi Khalvati

{ Poem }

An Iranian professor I know asked me
/ the first time we met, as he’d asked so many
/ students:…

Love is like a dizziness - by James Hogg

{ Poem }

O, love, love, love!
Love is like a dizziness;
It winna let a puir body
Gang about his biziness!

Ripeness - by Alasdair Gray

{ Poem }

It is three months since you taught me love can be fun
/ and one since you came to fruit,
/ breasts weighty and…

He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - by W.B. Yeats

{ Poem }

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
/ Enwrought with golden and silver light,
/ The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
/ Of night…

When You are Old - by W.B. Yeats

{ Poem }

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
/ And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
/ And slowly read,…

So, We’ll Go No More A-roving - by George Gordon, Lord Byron

{ Poem }

I
/ So, we’ll go no more a-roving
/ So late into the night,
/ Though the heart be still as loving,
/ …

Strawberries - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

There were never strawberries
like the ones we had
that sultry afternoon

Cokkils - by Sydney Goodsir Smith

{ Poem }

Doun through the sea
/ Continuallie
/ A rain o’ cokkils, shells
/ …

Bright is the Ring of Words - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

Bright is the ring of words
/ When the right man rings them,
/ Fair the fall of songs
/ …

Water-Lilies - by T. A. Robertson

{ Poem }

Whin da laeves an buds o da water-lilies
/ Spread roond da loch der dark-green frill
/ I took my…

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