Love Poems – Page 2472

• Hymn of Trust

  O love Divine, that stooped to share
  Our sharpest pang, our bitterest tear,
  On Thee we cast each earth-born care, …

  Oliver Wendell Holmes English

• Epilogue to the Breakfast Table Series

  A crazy bookcase, placed before
  A low-price dealer’s open door;
  Therein arrayed in broken rows …

  Oliver Wendell Holmes English

• Dorothy Q - by Oliver Wendell Holmes

  Grandmother’s mother: her age, I guess,
  Thirteen summers, or something less;
  Girlish bust, but womanly air; …

  English

• Cacoethes Scribendi

  If all the trees in all the woods were men;
  And each and every blade of grass a pen;
  If every leaf on every shrub and tree …

  Oliver Wendell Holmes English

• The Strong Heroic Line

  Friends of the Muse, to you of right belong
  The first staid footsteps of my square-toed song;
  Full well I know the strong heroic line …

  Oliver Wendell Holmes English

• From "The Iron Gate"

  As on the gauzy wings of fancy flying
  From some far orb I track our watery sphere,
  Home of the struggling, suffering, doubting, dying, …

  Oliver Wendell Holmes English

• Lament of a Mocking-Bird

  Silence instead of thy sweet song, my bird,
  Which through the darkness of my winter days
  Warbling of summer sunshine still was heard; …

  Frances Anne Kemble English

• The Widowed Heart

  Thou art lost to me forever!—I have lost thee, Isadore!
  Thy head will never rest upon my loyal bosom more;
  Thy tender eyes will never more look fondly into mine, …

  Albert Pike English

• Dixie

  Southrons, hear your country call you!
  Up, lest worse than death befall you!
  To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie! …

  Albert Pike English

• The Higher Good

  Father, i will not ask for wealth or fame,
  Though once they would have joyed my carnal sense:
  I shudder not to bear a hated name, …

  Theodore Parker English

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