Love Poems – Page 2476

Common Sense

She came among the gathering crowd,
A maiden fair, without pretence,
And when they asked her humble name, …

James Thomas Fields English
Inspiration

If with light head erect I sing,
Though all the Muses lend their force,
From my poor love of anything, …

Henry David Thoreau English
The Fisher's Boy

My life is like a stroll upon the beach,
As near the ocean’s edge as I can go;
My tardy steps its waves sometimes o’erreach, …

Henry David Thoreau English
Smoke

Light-winged smoke! Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight;
Lark without song, and messenger of dawn, …

Henry David Thoreau English
Mist

Low-anchored cloud,
Newfoundland air,
Fountain-head and source of rivers, …

Henry David Thoreau English
My Bird

Ere last year’s moon had left the sky,
A birdling sought my Indian nest,
And folded, O, so lovingly, …

Emily Chubbuck Judson English
Iona

We gazed on Corryvrekin’s whirl,
We sailed by Jura’s shore,
Where sang of old the mermaid-girl, …

Arthur Cleveland Coxe English
From "A Poet's Hope"

Lady, there is a hope that all men have,—
Some mercy for their faults, a grassy place
To rest in, and a flower-strown, gentle grave; …

William Ellery Channing English
Hymn of the Earth

My highway is unfeatured air,
My consorts are the sleepless Stars,
And men my giant arms upbear,— …

William Ellery Channing English
The Barren Moors

On your bare rocks, O barren moors,
On your bare rocks I love to lie!—
They stand like crags upon the shores, …

William Ellery Channing English