Famous Lasting Love Poems by Famous Poets

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On Receiving a Crown of Ivy from John Keats

...It is a lofty feeling, yet a kind, 
Thus to be topped with leaves;--to have a sense 
Of honour-shaded thought,--an influence 
As from great nature's fingers, and be twined 
With her old, sacred, verdurous ivy-bind, 
As though she hallowed with that sylvan fence 
A head that bows to her benevolence, 
Midst pomp of fancied trumpets in the wind. 

It is what'...Read more of this...
by Hunt, James Henry Leigh


The Grey Rock

...rock and the windy light?
Why should the faithfullest heart most love
The bitter sweetness of false faces?
Why must the lasting love what passes,
Why are the gods by men betrayed?'

But thereon every god stood up
With a slow smile and without sound,
And Stretching forth his arm and cup
To where she moaned upon the ground,
Suddenly drenched her to the skin;
And she with Goban's wine adrip,
No more remembering what had been.
Stared at the gods with laughing lip.

I have kept my...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler

To Love is Not to Possess

...y are openly free to be
Who they really are–and always secretly were,
In the very core of their being
Where true and lasting love can alone abide....Read more of this...
by Kavanaugh, James

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