Love Poems – Page 2454

A Name in the Sand

Alone i walked the ocean strand;
A pearly shell was in my hand:
I stooped and wrote upon the sand …

Hannah Flagg Gould English
My Brigantine

my brigantine!
Just in thy mould and beauteous in thy form,
Gentle in roll and buoyant on the surge, …

James Fenimore Cooper English
The Fugitive Slave's Apostrophe to the North Star

Star of the North! though night winds drift
The fleecy drapery of the sky
Between thy lamp and me, I lift, …

John Pierpont English
Warren's Address to the American Soldiers

Stand! the ground’s your own, my braves!
Will ye give it up to slaves?
Will ye look for greener graves? …

John Pierpont English
The Ballot

A weapon that comes down as still
As snowflakes fall upon the sod;
But executes a freeman’s will, …

John Pierpont English
The Exile at Rest

His falchion flashed along the Nile;
His hosts he led through Alpine snows;
O’er Moscow’s towers, that shook the while, …

John Pierpont English
The Pilgrim Fathers

The pilgrim FATHERS,—where are they?
The waves that brought them o’er
Still roll in the bay, and throw their spray …

John Pierpont English
My Child

i cannot make him dead!
His fair sunshiny head
Is ever bounding round my study-chair; …

John Pierpont English
Marco Bozzaris

At midnight, in his guarded tent,
The Turk was dreaming of the hour
When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, …

Fitz-Greene Halleck English
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake

Green be the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days!
None knew thee but to love thee, …

Fitz-Greene Halleck English