Love Poems – Page 2487

In the Still, Star-Lit Night

in the still, star-lit night,
By the full fountain and the willow-tree,
I walked, and not alone— …

Elizabeth Stoddard English
Mercedes

Under a sultry, yellow sky,
On the yellow sand I lie;
The crinkled vapors smite my brain, …

Elizabeth Stoddard English
On the Campagna

Stop on the Appian Way,
In the Roman Campagna;
Stop at my tomb, …

Elizabeth Stoddard English
A Summer Night

I feel the breath of the summer night,
Aromatic fire:
The trees, the vines, the flowers are astir …

Elizabeth Stoddard English
Last Days

As one who follows a departing friend,
Destined to cross the great, dividing sea,
I watch and follow these departing days, …

Elizabeth Stoddard English
California

The grecian MUSE, to earth who bore
Her goblet filled with wine of gold,
Dispersed the frown that Ages wore …

Thomas Lake Harris English
Fledglings

Why should we waste and weep?
The Summers weave
A nest of blossoms deep. …

Thomas Lake Harris English
Sea-Sleep

sleep, sleep, sleep
In thy folded waves, O Sea!
Till the quiet breathings creep, …

Thomas Lake Harris English
A Ballad of Sir John Franklin

O, whither sail you, Sir John Franklin?
Cried a whaler in Baffin’s Bay.
To know if between the land and the pole …

George Henry Boker English
The Ferry

There was a gay maiden lived down by the mill,—
Ferry me over the ferry,—
Her hair was as bright as the waves of a rill, …

George Henry Boker English