Face to face
looks hide the whole face
but in bed we could see
and all night a cold wind
blowing through the windows
Romantic poems
Romantic poems — a collection of the best works on Poemship.
Idyll
sun behind her dress
the lines of a hip
on a country evening
so content I hardly speak
Slow dance
is my knee red
which hand is handsome
alone with each other
we begin to learn to dance
for two to pray
being one is holy
February idyll
a couple of ducks content to eat
in the cold wind
this ache is my Valentine
Smitten
the morning road
where she alights
and I who never loved
my heart a heavy shoe
cannot understand a purse
which is little yet mighty
Adrift
I wake to her silence
tired of being read by others
her other face
against my heart
her body in my hands
as bland as a letter from sea
Late love song
the beauty of her naked neck
I admire it as we eat
she loves horses
and I am in pain from riding
I have lived
a very orderly life
a cook may find my heart
too old and hard
Grandiloquent
a most troublesome fellow my head
aching to have the world
and knot it up
seeing all the disorder of desire
as a wing for love
Pillar
My wife is an oiled leg of church,
a long psalm,
sex the red letter I preserve
among my other prayers.
The starving artist studies his model
All day looking
at her body, a good ship;
his, a gilded well.
Rendezvous
Meet me in thin arms,
say it is only to sell me a trick
or a ring in the nose.
I know how true
rain would be.
The gospel of wealth
O tell me to come, leave
the key of the chest
with the surgeon.
Live plentifully and love
good things. Let the virginal
thorn pierce the rose.
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