Love Poems – Page 2453

The Watcher

The night was dark and fearful,
The blast swept wailing by;
A watcher, pale and tearful, …

Sarah Josepha Hale English
The Demon-Lover

Scene. the terraced roof of ABSALOM’S house, by night; adorned with vases of flowers, and fragrant shrubs; an awning spread over part of it. TAMAR and HADAD.
Tam. No, no, I well remember—proofs, you said,
Unknown to Moses. …

James Abraham Hillhouse English
A Farewell to America

Farewell, my more than fatherland!
Home of my heart and friends, adieu!
Lingering beside some foreign strand, …

Richard Henry Wilde English
To the Mocking-Bird

Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool!
Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe?
Thine ever ready notes of ridicule …

Richard Henry Wilde English
On Snow-Flakes melting on His Lady's Breast

To kiss my Celia’s fairer breast,
The snow forsakes its native skies,
But proving an unwelcome guest, …

William Martin Johnson English
On the Death of My Son Charles

My son, thou wast my heart’s delight,
Thy morn of life was gay and cheery;
That morn has rushed to sudden night, …

Daniel Webster English
Private Devotion

I love to steal awhile away
From every cumbering care,
And spend the hours of setting day …

Phoebe Hinsdale Brown English
Hymn for the Dedication of a Church

Where ancient forests round us spread,
Where bends the cataract’s ocean-fall,
On the lone mountain’s silent head, …

Andrews Norton English
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep

Rocked in the cradle of the deep
I lay me down in peace to sleep;
Secure I rest upon the wave, …

Emma Hart Willard English
The Soul's Defiance

I said to Sorrow’s awful storm,
That beat against my breast,
Rage on—thou may’st destroy this form, …

Lavinia Stoddard English