Love Poems – Page 2460

Channing

Channing! my Mentor whilst my thought was young,
And I the votary of fair liberty,—
How hung I then upon thy glowing tongue, …

Amos Bronson Alcott English
Emerson

Misfortune to have lived not knowing thee!
’T were not high living, nor to noblest end,
Who, dwelling near, learned not sincerity, …

Amos Bronson Alcott English
Margaret Fuller

Thou, sibyl rapt! whose sympathetic soul
Infused the myst’ries thy tongue failed to tell;
Though from thy lips the marvellous accents fell, …

Amos Bronson Alcott English
Thoreau

Who nearer Nature’s life would truly come
Must nearest come to him of whom I speak;
He all kinds knew,—the vocal and the dumb; …

Amos Bronson Alcott English
Hawthorne

Romancer, far more coy than that coy sex!
Perchance some stroke of magic thee befell,
Ere thy baronial keep the Muse did vex, …

Amos Bronson Alcott English
Bartol

Poet of the Pulpit, whose full-chorded lyre
Startles the churches from their slumbers late,
Discoursing music, mixed with lofty ire …

Amos Bronson Alcott English
Wendell Phillips

People’s attorney, servant of the Right!
Pleader for all shades of the solar ray,
Complexions dusky, yellow, red, or white; …

Amos Bronson Alcott English
Garrison

Freedom’s first champion in our fettered land!
Nor politician nor base citizen
Could gibbet thee, nor silence, nor withstand. …

Amos Bronson Alcott English
The Eclipse of Faith

The shapes that frowned before the eyes
Of the early world have fled,
And all the life of earth and skies, …

Theodore Dwight Woolsey English
The Baron's Last Banquet

O’er a low couch the setting sun had thrown its latest ray,
Where in his last strong agony a dying warrior lay,
The stern old Baron Rudiger, whose frame had ne’er been bent …

Albert Gorton Greene English