Famous Short Jealousy Poems

Famous Short Jealousy Poems. Short Jealousy Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Jealousy short poems

My Pretty Rose Tree  

 A flower was offered to me;
Such a flower as May never bore.

But I said I've a Pretty Rose-tree.

And I passed the sweet flower o'er.


Then I went to my Pretty Rose-tree:
To tend her by day and by night.

But my Rose turnd away with jealousy:
And her thorns were my only delight.

Jealousy  

 VAIN Love, why do'st thou boast of Wings, 
That cannot help thee to retire! 
When such quick Flames Suspicion brings, 
As do the Heart about thee fire.
 
Still Swift to come, but when to go 
Thou shou'd'st be more–Alas! how Slow.
 

Lord of the World must surely be 
But thy bare Title at the most; 
Since Jealousy is Lord of Thee, 
And makes such Havock on thy Coast, 

As do's thy pleasant Land deface, 
Yet binds thee faster to the Place.

Symptoms of Love  

 Love is universal migraine,
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.
 

Symptoms of true love
Are leanness, jealousy,
Laggard dawns; 

Are omens and nightmares -
Listening for a knock,
Waiting for a sign: 

For a touch of her fingers
In a darkened room,
For a searching look.
 

Take courage, lover!
Could you endure such pain
At any hand but hers?

On Jealousy  

 There is a thing that nothing is,
A foolish wanton, sober wise;
It hath noe wings, noe eyes, noe eares,
And yet it flies, it sees, it heares;
It lives by losse, it feeds on smart,
It joyes in woe, it liveth not;
Yet evermore this hungry elfe
Doth feed on nothing but itselfe.

To Nobodaddy  

 Why art thou silent & invisible 
Father of jealousy 
Why dost thou hide thyself in clouds 
From every searching Eye

Why darkness & obscurity 
In all thy words & laws 
That none dare eat the fruit but from 
The wily serpents jaws 
Or is it because Secresy
gains females loud applause

So proud she was to die  

 So proud she was to die
It made us all ashamed
That what we cherished, so unknown
To her desire seemed --
So satisfied to go
Where none of us should be
Immediately -- that Anguish stooped
Almost to Jealousy --

Partners  

 Love took chambers on our street
 Opposite to mine;
On his door he tacked a neat,
 Clearly lettered sign.


Straightway grew his custom great,
 For his sign read so:
“Hearts united while you wait.

 Step in.
 Love and Co.
”

Much I wondered who was “Co.
”
 In Love’s partnership;
Thought across the street I’d go—
 Learn from Love’s own lip.


So I went; and since that day
 Life is hard for me.

I was buncoed! (By the way,
 “Co.
” is Jealousy.
)

ORPHEUS  

 Orpheus he went, as poets tell,
To fetch Eurydice from hell;
And had her, but it was upon
This short, but strict condition;
Backward he should not look, while he
Led her through hell's obscurity.

But ah! it happen'd, as he made
His passage through that dreadful shade,
Revolve he did his loving eye,
For gentle fear or jealousy;
And looking back, that look did sever
Him and Eurydice for ever.