Love Poems – Page 2474

The Settler

His echoing axe the settler swung
Amid the sea-like solitude,
And rushing, thundering, down were flung …

Alfred Billings Street English
The Loon

Tameless in his stately pride, along the lake of islands,
Tireless speeds the lonely loon upon his diving track;—
Emerald and gold emblazon, satin-like, his shoulder, …

Alfred Billings Street English
The Bobolinks

When nature had made all her birds,
With no more cares to think on,
She gave a rippling laugh, and out …

Christopher Pearse Cranch English
Stanza from an Early Poem

Thought is deeper than all speech,
Feeling deeper than all thought;
Souls to souls can never teach …

Christopher Pearse Cranch English
The Pines and the Sea

Beyond the low marsh-meadows and the beach,
Seen through the hoary trunks of windy pines,
The long blue level of the ocean shines. …

Christopher Pearse Cranch English
The Idler

I idle stand that I may find employ,
Such as my Master when He comes will give;
I cannot find in mine own work my joy, …

Jones Very English
The New World

The night that has no star lit up by God,
The day that round men shines who still are blind,
The earth their grave-turned feet for ages trod, …

Jones Very English
The Old Road

The road is left that once was trod
By man and heavy-laden beast;
And new ways opened, iron-shod, …

Jones Very English
Yourself

’t is to yourself I speak; you cannot know
Him whom I call in speaking such a one,
For you beneath the earth lie buried low, …

Jones Very English
The Dead

I see them,—crowd on crowd they walk the earth,
Dry leafless trees no autumn wind laid bare;
And in their nakedness find cause for mirth, …

Jones Very English