Love Poems – Page 2488
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To the Fringed Gentian
Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, / And colored with the heaven’s own blue, / That openest when the quiet light … -
The Hunter of the Prairies
Ay, this is freedom!—these pure skies / Were never stained with village smoke: / The fragrant wind, that through them flies, … -
The Battle-Field
Once this soft turf, this rivulet ’s sands, / Were trampled by a hurrying crowd, / And fiery hearts and armed hands … -
From "An Evening Revery"
o thou great Movement of the Universe, / Or Change, or Flight of Time—for ye are one! / That bearest, silently, this visible scene … -
The Antiquity of Freedom
Here are old trees, tall oaks, and gnarlëd pines, / That stream with gray-green mosses, here the ground / Was never trenched by spade, and flowers spring up … -
The Planting of the Apple-Tree
come, let us plant the apple-tree. / Cleave the tough greensward with the spade / Wide let its hollow bed be made; … -
The May Sun Sheds an Amber Light
The may sun sheds an amber light / On new-leaved woods and lawns between; / But she who, with a smile more bright, … -
The Conqueror's Grave
Within this lowly grave a Conqueror lies, / And yet the monument proclaims it not, / Nor round the sleeper’s name hath chisel wrought … -
My Autumn Walk
On woodlands ruddy with autumn / The amber sunshine lies; / I look on the beauty round me, … -
The Death of Slavery
O thou great Wrong, that, through the slow-paced years, / Didst hold thy millions fettered, and didst wield / The scourge that drove the laborer to the field, …
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