Love Poems – Page 2486

Lines to a Blind Girl

Blind as the song of birds,
Feeling its way into the heart,
Or as a thought ere it hath words,— …

Thomas Buchanan Read English
Drifting

my soul to-day
Is far away,
Sailing the Vesuvian Bay; …

Thomas Buchanan Read English
A Song for the Asking

A song! What songs have died
Upon the earth,
Voices of love and pride— …

Francis Orrery Ticknor English
The Virginians of the Valley

The knightliest of the knightly race
That, since the days of old,
Have kept the lamp of chivalry …

Francis Orrery Ticknor English
Little Giffen

Out of the focal and foremost fire,
Out of the hospital walls as dire;
Smitten of grape-shot and gangrene, …

Francis Orrery Ticknor English
The City of God

City of God, how broad and far
Outspread thy walls sublime!
The true thy chartered freemen are, …

Samuel Johnson English
From "What Is the Use?"

I saw a man, by some accounted wise,
For some things said and done before their eyes,
Quite overcast, and, in a restless muse, …

Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth English
The Mayflower

Down in the bleak December bay
The ghostly vessel stands away;
Her spars and halyards white with ice, …

Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth English
The Poet's Secret

The poet’s secret I must know,
If that will calm my restless mind.
I hail the seasons as they go, …

Elizabeth Stoddard English
Unreturning

Now all the flowers that ornament the grass,
Wherever meadows are and placid brooks,
Must fall—the “glory of the grass” must fall. …

Elizabeth Stoddard English