Love Poems – Page 1407

• If Nature smiles — the Mother must

  If Nature smiles — the Mother must / I'm sure, at many a whim / Of Her eccentric Family — …

• If pain for peace prepares

  If pain for peace prepares / Lo, what "Augustan" years / Our feet await! …

• If recollecting were forgetting,

  If recollecting is forgetting, / then I remember yet. / And if forgetting, recollecting, …

• If she had been the Mistletoe

  If she had been the Mistletoe / And I had been the Rose — / How gay upon your table …

• If Spirits Walk

  If spirits walk, love, when the night climbs slow / The slant footpath where we were wont to go, / Be sure that I shall take the selfsame way …

  by Sophie Jewett

• If the foolish, call them "flowers" —

  If the foolish, call them "flowers" — / Need the wiser, tell? / If the Savants "Classify" them …

• If this is "fading"

  If this is "fading" / Oh let me immediately "fade"! / If this is "dying" …

• If those I loved were lost

  If those I loved were lost / The Crier's voice would tell me — / If those I loved were found …

• If What we could — were what we would —

  If What we could — were what we would — / Criterion — be small — / It is the Ultimate of Talk — …

• If wrecked upon the Shoal of Thought

  If wrecked upon the Shoal of Thought / How is it with the Sea? / The only Vessel that is shunned …

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