Love Poems – Page 2450

The Scurrilous Scribe

His soul extracted from the public sink,
For discord born he splasht around his ink;
In scandal foremost, as by scandal fed, …

Philip Freneau English
To a Caty-Did

in a branch of willow hid
Sings the evening Caty-did:
From the lofty-locust bough …

Philip Freneau English
To a Honey Bee

Thou, born to sip the lake or spring,
Or quaff the waters of the stream,
Why hither come, on vagrant wing? …

Philip Freneau English
Plato to Theon

The grandeur of this earthly round,
Where Theon would forever be,
Is but a name, is but a sound— …

Philip Freneau English
The Yankee Man-of-War

’t is of a gallant Yankee ship that flew the stripes and stars,
And the whistling wind from the west-nor’-west blew through the pitch-pine spars;
With her starboard tacks aboard, my boys, she hung upon the gale; …

Anonymous English
The Smooth Divine

There smiled the smooth Divine, unused to wound
The sinner’s heart with hell’s alarming sound.
No terrors on his gentle tongue attend; …

Timothy Dwight English
Love to the Church

I love thy kingdom, Lord,
The house of thine abode,
The church our blest Redeemer saved …

Timothy Dwight English
Days of My Youth - George Tucker

Days of my youth,
Ye have glided away;
Hairs of my youth, …

St English
Darby and Joan - John Honeywood

I
when darby saw the setting sun,
He swung his scythe, and home he run, …

St English
The Fisherman's Hymn

The osprey sails above the sound,
The geese are gone, the gulls are flying;
The herring shoals swarm thick around, …

Alexander Wilson English