Read full poem →Who spake no slander, no, nor listen’d to it;
Who loved one only and who clave to her—’
Her—over all whose realms to their last isle,
Dictionary Entry
A very close friend or family member for whom a person has feelings of endearment, one of someone's close ones; sometimes: next of kin (for example on hospital admission form).
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Poetry examples for “loved one”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →By all thy foes beleaguered,--now when sight
Nor sound denotes the loved one far away?
Of these thy vanquished hours what shalt thou say,--
Read full poem →And a youth reads a poem of love: forever and ever
Is his soul the soul of the loved one; a woman sings
Of the nine months which go to the birth of a soul.
Read full poem →The soul from trammels on essential being,
Is to possess the loved one. I have strayed
Into the only heaven God has made:
Read full poem →Had sighed to many though he loved but one,[t][24]
And that loved one, alas! could ne'er be his.
Ah, happy she! to 'scape from him whose kiss
Read full poem →And then come back down.
Singing: "There dwells a loved one,
But cruel is she!