Love Poems – Page 2488

To England

Lear and Cordelia! ’t was an ancient tale
Before thy Shakespeare gave it deathless fame:
The times have changed, the moral is the same. …

George Henry Boker English
To My Lady

I
i ’ll call thy frown a headsman, passing grim,
Walking before some wretch foredoomed to death, …

George Henry Boker English
Dirge for a Soldier

Close his eyes; his work is done!
What to him is friend or foeman,
Rise of moon, or set of sun, …

George Henry Boker English
Music in Camp

Two armies covered hill and plain,
Where Rappahannock’s waters
Ran deeply crimsoned with the stain …

John Randolph Thompson English
Ashby

To the brave all homage render;
Weep, ye skies of June!
With a radiance pure and tender, …

John Randolph Thompson English
Amy

This is the pathway where she walked,
The tender grass pressed by her feet.
The laurel boughs laced overhead, …

James Matthew Legare English
Ahab Mohammed

A peasant stood before a king and said,
“My children starve, I come to thee for bread.”
On cushions soft and silken sat enthroned …

James Matthew Legare English
To a Lily

Go bow thy head in gentle spite,
Thou lily white,
For she who spies thee waving here, …

James Matthew Legare English
Ode to a Butterfly

Thou spark of life that wavest wings of gold,
Thou songless wanderer mid the songful birds,
With Nature’s secrets in thy tints unrolled …

Thomas Wentworth Higginson English
To Duty

Light of dim mornings; shield from heat and cold;
Balm for all ailments; substitute for praise;
Comrade of those who plod in lonely ways …

Thomas Wentworth Higginson English