Lovely Victoriana's Poem Collection
Poetry during the Victorian era reflected the heights and depths of emotion, thoughts, hopes and experiences of mankind.
Love Poems Of The Victorian Era
"She Walks In Beauty"
by
Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meets in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress
Or softly lightens o'er her face,
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek and o'er that brow
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent.
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"Forget Thee?"
by
John Moultrie
"Forget thee?" If to dream by night and muse on thee by day,
If all the worship deep and wild a poet's heart can pay,
If prayers in absence breathed for thee to Heaven's protecting power,
If winged thought that flit to thee--a thousand in an hour--
If busy fancy blending thee with all my future lot--
If this thou call'st "forgetting," thou, indeed shalt be forgot!
"Forget thee?" Bid the forest-birds forget their sweetest tune;
"Forget thee?" bid the sea forget to swell beneath the moon;
Bid the thirsty flowers forget to drink the eve's refreshing dew;
Thyself forget thine own "dear land," and its "mountains wild and blue"
Forget each old familiar face, each long-remember'd spot--
When these things are forgot by thee, then thou shalt be forgot!
Keep, if thou wilt, thy maiden peace, still calm and fancy-free,
For God forbid thy gladsome heart should grow less glad for me;
Yet, while that heart is still unwon, oh! bid not mine to rove,
But let it nurse its humble faith and uncomplaining love;
If these, preserved for patient years, at last avail me not,
Forget me then; but ne'er believe that thou canst be forgot!
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