Love Poems – Page 1204

• Fontenoy

  [May 11, 1745] / THRICE at the huts of Fontenoy the English column failed, / And twice the lines of Saint Antoine the Dutch in vain assailed; …

  by Thomas Osborne Davis

• Footsteps of Angels

  When the hours of day are numbered, / And the voices of the night / Wake the better soul that slumbered …

  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• For a Novel of Hall Caine’s

  After Kipling / HE sits in a sea-green grotto with a bucket of lurid paint, / And draws the Thing as it isn’t for the God of things as they ain’t.

  by Robert Bridges

• For a’ That and a’ That

  Is there for honest poverty / Wha hangs his head, and a’ that? / The coward slave, we pass him by; …

  by Robert Burns

• For Annie

  Thank Heaven! the crisis— / The danger is past, / And the lingering illness …

  by Edgar Allan Poe

• For Charlie’s Sake

  The Night is late, the house is still; / The angels of the hour fulfil / Their tender ministries, and move …

  by John Williamson Palmer

• For Death — or rather

  For Death — or rather / For the Things 'twould buy — / This — put away …

• For Decoration Day

  I / 1861–1865 / but do we truly mourn our soldier dead, …

  by Rupert Hughes

• For Each Ecstatic Instant

  For each ecstatic instant / We must an anguish pay / In keen and quivering ratio …

  by Emily Dickinson

• For every Bird a Nest —

  For every Bird a Nest — / Wherefore in timid quest / Some little Wren goes seeking round — …

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