Love Poems – Page 2485

From an "Ode to England"

Keats
o gold Hyperion, love-lorn Porphyro,
Ill-fated! from thine orbëd fire struck back …

William Wilberforce English
The Brook

A little blind girl wandering,
While daylight pales beneath the moon,
And with a brook meandering, …

William Wilberforce English
On the Defeat of a Great Man

Fallen? how fallen? States and empires fall;
O’er towers and rock-built walls,
And perished nations, floods to tempests call …

William Wilberforce English
To Rosina Pico

Regent of song! who bringest to our shore
Strains from the passionate land, where shapes of art
Make music of the wind that passes o’er, …

William Wilberforce English
From "The River-Fight"

Would you hear of the River-Fight?
It was two of a soft spring night;—
God’s stars looked down on all, …

Henry Howard Brownell English
The Burial of the Dane

Blue gulf all around us,
Blue sky overhead—
Muster all on the quarter, …

Henry Howard Brownell English
The Sphinx

They glare—those stony eyes!
That in the fierce sun-rays
Showered from these burning skies, …

Henry Howard Brownell English
The Bivouac of the Dead

The muffled drum’s sad roll has beat
The soldier’s last tattoo;
No more on Life’s parade shall meet …

Theodore O'Hara English
The Morning-Glory

We wreathed about our darling’s head
The morning-glory bright;
Her little face looked out beneath, …

Maria White Lowell English
The Closing Scene

Within his sober realm of leafless trees
The russet year inhaled the dreamy air;
Like some tanned reaper in his hour of ease, …

Thomas Buchanan Read English