Love Poems – Page 2479

The Wife

I could have stemmed misfortune’s tide,
And borne the rich one’s sneer,—
Have braved the haughty glance of pride, …

Anna Peyre Dinnies English
Blind Louise

She knew that she was growing blind,—
Foresaw the dreary night
That soon would fall, without a star, …

George Washington Dewey English
The Voice of the Grass

Here i come creeping, creeping everywhere;
By the dusty roadside,
On the sunny hill-side, …

Sarah Roberts Boyle English
A Winter Wish

old wine to drink!
Ay, give the slippery juice
That drippeth from the grape thrown loose …

Robert Hinckley Messinger English
A Proem

When in my walks I meet some ruddy lad—
Or swarthy man—with tray-beladen head,
Whose smile entreats me, or his visage sad, …

Samuel Ward English
Horace

He who would echo Horace’ lays
Aspires to an Icarian fame;
And borne on waxen wings essays …

John Osborne Sargent English
Chez Brebant

The vicomte is wearing a brow of gloom
As he mounts the stair to his favorite room.
“Breakfast for two!” the garçons say, …

Francis Alexander Durivage English
From "Rhoecus"

Hear now this fairy legend of old Greece,
As full of gracious youth and beauty still
As the immortal freshness of that grace …

James Russell Lowell English
A Stanza on Freedom

They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
They are slaves who will not choose …

James Russell Lowell English
Hebe

i saw the twinkle of white feet,
I saw the flash of robes descending;
Before her ran an influence fleet, …

James Russell Lowell English