Love Poems – Page 2475

The Gifts of God

The light that fills thy house at morn,
Thou canst not for thyself retain;
But all who with thee here are born, …

Jones Very English
The Fringilla Melodia

Happy song-sparrow, that on woodland side
Or by the meadow sits, and ceaseless sings
His mellow roundelay in russet pride, …

Henry Beck Hirst English
The Funeral of Time

Lo! through a shadowy valley
March with measured step and tread
A long array of Phantoms wan …

Henry Beck Hirst English
A Life on the Ocean Wave

A life on the ocean wave,
A home on the rolling deep,
Where the scattered waters rave, …

Epes Sargent English
The Heart's Summer

The cold blast at the casement beats;
The window-panes are white;
The snow whirls through the empty streets; …

Epes Sargent English
The Brave Old Ship, the Orient

Woe for the brave ship Orient!
Woe for the old ship Orient!
For in broad, broad light, and with land in sight, …

Robert Traill Spence Lowell English
The After-Comers

ex noto fictum carmen…
…licuit semperque
licebit signatum præsente nota producere [carmen]. …

Robert Traill Spence Lowell English
From an "Ode for Decoration Day"

O gallant brothers of the generous South,
Foes for a day and brothers for all time!
I charge you by the memories of our youth, …

Henry Peterson English
Rinaldo

Bring me a cup of good red wine
To drink before I die;
Though earthly joys I must resign, …

Henry Peterson English
With Wordsworth at Rydal

The grass hung wet on Rydal banks,
The golden day with pearls adorning,
When side by side with him we walked …

James Thomas Fields English