Love Poems – Page 2465

• Parrhasius

  There stood an unsold captive in the mart,
  A gray-haired and majestical old man,
  Chained to a pillar. It was almost night, …

  Nathaniel Parker Willis English

• Unseen Spirits

  The shadows lay along Broadway,
  ’T was near the twilight-tide,
  And slowly there a lady fair …

  Nathaniel Parker Willis English

• The Torn Hat

  There ’s something in a noble boy,
  A brave, free-hearted, careless one,
  With his unchecked, unbidden joy, …

  Nathaniel Parker Willis English

• To Giulia Grisi

  When the rose is brightest,
  Its bloom will soonest die;
  When burns the meteor brightest, …

  Nathaniel Parker Willis English

• The Swamp Fox

  We follow where the Swamp Fox guides,
  His friends and merry men are we;
  And when the troop of Tarleton rides, …

  William Gilmore Simms English

• The Lost Pleiad

  Not in the sky,
  Where it was seen
  So long in eminence of light serene,— …

  William Gilmore Simms English

• The Decay of a People

  This the true sign of ruin to a race—
  It undertakes no march, and day by day
  Drowses in camp, or, with the laggard’s pace, …

  William Gilmore Simms English

• Song in March

  Now are the winds about us in their glee,
  Tossing the slender tree;
  Whirling the sands about his furious car, …

  William Gilmore Simms English

• Old

  By the wayside, on a mossy stone,
  Sat a hoary pilgrim sadly musing;
  Oft I marked him sitting there alone, …

  Ralph Hoyt English

• Sparkling and Bright

  Sparkling and bright in liquid light,
  Does the wine our goblets gleam in,
  With hue as red as the rosy bed …

  Charles Fenno Hoffman English

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