Love Poems – Page 2483

Daniel Gray

If i shall ever win the home in heaven
For whose sweet rest I humbly hope and pray,
In the great company of the forgiven …

Josiah Gilbert Holland English
Babyhood

What is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt!
Unwritten history! …

Josiah Gilbert Holland English
A Christmas Carol

there ’s a song in the air!
There ’s a star in the sky!
There ’s a mother’s deep prayer …

Josiah Gilbert Holland English
The College Colonel

He rides at their head;
A crutch by his saddle just slants in view,
One slung arm is in splints you see, …

Herman Melville English
The Eagle of the Blue

Aloft he guards the starry folds
Who is the brother of the star;
The bird whose joy is in the wind …

Herman Melville English
Memorials

Happy are they and charmed in life
Who through long wars arrive unscarred
At peace. To such the wreath be given, …

Herman Melville English
An Uninscribed Monument on One of the Battle-Fields of the Wilderness

Silence and Solitude may hint
(Whose home is in yon piny wood)
What I, though tableted, could never tell— …

Herman Melville English
Crossing the Tropics

While now the Pole Star sinks from sight
The Southern Cross it climbs the sky;
But losing thee, my love, my light, …

Herman Melville English
The Enviable Isles

Through storms you reach them and from storms are free.
Afar descried, the foremost drear in hue,
But, nearer, green; and, on the marge, the sea …

Herman Melville English
On a Bust of Dante

see, from this counterfeit of him
Whom Arno shall remember long,
How stern of lineament, how grim, …

Thomas William Parsons English