Love Poems – Page 2466

Monterey

We were not many—we who stood
Before the iron sleet that day—
Yet many a gallant spirit would …

Charles Fenno Hoffman English
The Mint Julep

’t is said that the gods on Olympus of old
(And who the bright legend profanes with a doubt?)
One night, ’mid their revels, by Bacchus were told …

Charles Fenno Hoffman English
Hymn to the Night

I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
A Psalm of Life

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!—
For the soul is dead that slumbers, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
The Skeleton in Armor

“speak! speak! thou fearful guest!
Who, with thy hollow breast
Still in rude armor drest, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
The Village Blacksmith

Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
Serenade from "The Spanish Student"

Stars of the summer night!
Far in yon azure deeps,
Hide, hide your golden light! …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
The Arrow and the Song

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
Curfew

Solemnly, mournfully,
Dealing its dole,
The Curfew Bell …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
From "Evangeline"

Evangeline in ACADIE
SOMEWHAT apart from the village, and nearer the Basin of Minas,
Benedict Bellefontaine, the wealthiest farmer of Grand-Pré, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English