Love Poems – Page 2459

Song of Egla

Day in melting purple dying,
Blossoms all around me sighing,
Fragrance from the lilies straying, …

Maria Gowen Brooks English
Farewell to Cuba

Adieu, fair isle! I love thy bowers,
I love thy dark-eyed daughters there;
The cool pomegranate’s scarlet flowers …

Maria Gowen Brooks English
I Would Not Live Alway

I would not live alway—live alway below!
Oh no, I ’ll not linger when bidden to go:
The days of our pilgrimage granted us here …

William Augustus Muhlenberg English
Heaven's Magnificence

Since o’er thy footstool here below
Such radiant gems are strown,
Oh, what magnificence must glow, …

William Augustus Muhlenberg English
Mr - Merry's Lament for "Long Tom" by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

thy cruise is over now,
Thou art anchored by the shore,
And never more shalt thou …

English
The Deep

there ’s beauty in the deep:
The wave is bluer than the sky;
And though the lights shine bright on high, …

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard English
Epithalamium

I saw two clouds at morning,
Tinged with the rising sun,
And in the dawn they floated on, …

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard English
Evening

Softly now the light of day
Fades upon my sight away;
Free from care, from labor free, …

George Washington Doane English
Robin Redbreast

Sweet robin, I have heard them say
That thou wert there upon the day
The Christ was crowned in cruel scorn …

George Washington Doane English
Lament of Anastasius

It was but yesterday, my love, thy little heart beat high,
And I had scorned the warning voice that told me thou must die;
I saw thee move with active bound, with spirits light and free, …

William Bourne Oliver Peabody English