Love Poems – Page 2491
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Thoreau
Who nearer Nature’s life would truly come / Must nearest come to him of whom I speak; / He all kinds knew,—the vocal and the dumb; … -
Hawthorne
Romancer, far more coy than that coy sex! / Perchance some stroke of magic thee befell, / Ere thy baronial keep the Muse did vex, … -
Bartol
Poet of the Pulpit, whose full-chorded lyre / Startles the churches from their slumbers late, / Discoursing music, mixed with lofty ire … -
Wendell Phillips
People’s attorney, servant of the Right! / Pleader for all shades of the solar ray, / Complexions dusky, yellow, red, or white; … -
Garrison
Freedom’s first champion in our fettered land! / Nor politician nor base citizen / Could gibbet thee, nor silence, nor withstand. … -
The Eclipse of Faith
The shapes that frowned before the eyes / Of the early world have fled, / And all the life of earth and skies, … -
The Baron's Last Banquet
O’er a low couch the setting sun had thrown its latest ray, / Where in his last strong agony a dying warrior lay, / The stern old Baron Rudiger, whose frame had ne’er been bent … -
A Health
I fill this cup to one made up / Of loveliness alone, / A woman, of her gentle sex … -
A Serenade
Look out upon the stars, my love, / And shame them with thine eyes, / On which, than on the lights above, … -
Votive Song
I burn no incense, hang no wreath, / On this thine early tomb: / Such cannot cheer the place of death, …
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