Love Poems – Page 2473

Jesus

Jesus, there is no dearer name than thine
Which Time has blazoned on his mighty scroll;
No wreaths nor garlands ever did entwine …

Theodore Parker English
To the Boy

Thou happiest thing alive,
Anomaly of earth!
If sound thy lineage give, …

Elizabeth Clementine Kinney English
The Quakeress Bride

No, not in the halls of the noble and proud,
Where Fashion assembles her glittering crowd,
Where all is in beauty and splendor arrayed, …

Elizabeth Clementine Kinney English
The Blind Psalmist

He sang the airs of olden times
In soft, low tones to sacred rhymes,
Devotional, but quaint; …

Elizabeth Clementine Kinney English
A Dream

’t was summer, and the spot a cool retreat—
Where curious eyes came not, nor footstep rude
Disturbed the lovers’ chosen solitude: …

Elizabeth Clementine Kinney English
Moonlight in Italy

There ’s not a breath the dewy leaves to stir;
There ’s not a cloud to spot the sapphire sky;
All Nature seems a silent worshipper: …

Elizabeth Clementine Kinney English
A Dancing Girl

She comes—the spirit of the dance!
And but for those large, eloquent eyes,
Where passion speaks in every glance, …

Frances Sargent Osgood English
On Sivori's Violin

A dryad’s home was once the tree
From which they carved this wondrous toy,
Who chanted lays of love and glee, …

Frances Sargent Osgood English
Calumny

a whisper woke the air,
A soft, light tone, and low,
Yet barbed with shame and woe. …

Frances Sargent Osgood English
On a Dead Poet

The hand that swept the sounding lyre
With more than mortal skill,
The lightning eye, the heart of fire, …

Frances Sargent Osgood English