Love Poems – Page 2468

Jugurtha

How cold are thy baths, Apollo!
Cried the African monarch, the splendid,
As down to his death in the hollow …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
My Books

Sadly as some old mediæval knight
Gazed at the arms he could no longer wield,
The sword two-handed and the shining shield …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
From "The Sinless Child"

Her ways were gentle while a babe,
With calm and tranquil eye,
That turned instinctively to seek …

Elizabeth Oakes Smith English
The Drowned Mariner

A mariner sat on the shrouds one night;
The wind was piping free;
Now bright, now dimmed was the moon-light pale, …

Elizabeth Oakes Smith English
Proem

i love the old melodious lays
Which softly melt the ages through,
The songs of Spenser’s golden days, …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
Ichabod

So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn
Which once he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
Astraea

“jove means to settle
Astræa in her seat again,
And let down from his golden chain …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
The Barefoot Boy

Blessings on thee, little man,
Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan!
With thy turned-up pantaloons, …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
Maud Muller

Maud muller on a summer’s day
Raked the meadow sweet with hay.
Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth …

John Greenleaf Whittier English