Love Poems – Page 2491

Melodies and Catches

Songs
how are songs begot and bred?
How do golden measures flow? …

Richard Henry Stoddard English
The Flight of Youth

There are gains for all our losses,
There are balms for all our pain:
But when youth, the dream, departs, …

Richard Henry Stoddard English
Oriental Songs

The divan
a LITTLE maid of Astrakan,
An idol on a silk divan; …

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The Lover

It is dark and lonesome here,
Beneath the windy eaves:—
The cold, cold ground my bed, …

Richard Henry Stoddard English
Abraham Lincoln

Not as when some great Captain falls
In battle, where his Country calls,
Beyond the struggling lines …

Richard Henry Stoddard English
Adsum

The angel came by night
(Such angels still come down),
And like a winter cloud …

Richard Henry Stoddard English
An Old Song Reversed

“there are gains for all our losses.”
So I said when I was young.
If I sang that song again, …

Richard Henry Stoddard English
Mors et Vita

“under the roots of the roses,
Down in the dark, rich mould,
The dust of my dear one reposes …

Richard Henry Stoddard English
A Gazelle

Last night, when my tired eyes were shut with sleep,
I saw the one I love, and heard her speak,—
Heard, in the listening watches of the night, …

Richard Henry Stoddard English
The Flight of the Arrow

The life of man
Is an arrow’s flight,
Out of darkness …

Richard Henry Stoddard English