Love Poems – Page 2492

The Vision of the Snow

“she has gone to be with the angels;”
So they had always said
To the little questioner asking …

Margaret Junkin Preston English
The Hero of the Commune

“garÇon! you—you
Snared along with this cursed crew?
(Only a child, and yet so bold, …

Margaret Junkin Preston English
A Grave in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond

I read the marble-lettered name,
And half in bitterness I said:
“As Dante from Ravenna came, …

Margaret Junkin Preston English
My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night

The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home;
’T is summer, the darkeys are gay;
The corn-top’s ripe, and the meadow’s in the bloom, …

Stephen Collins Foster English
Old Folks at Home

Way down upon de Swanee Ribber,
Far, far away,
Dere ’s wha my heart is turning ebber, …

Stephen Collins Foster English
Massa's in de Cold Ground

Round de meadows am a-ringing
De darkeys’ mournful song,
While de mocking-bird am singing, …

Stephen Collins Foster English
Segovia and Madrid

It sings to me in sunshine,
It whispers all day long,
My heartache like an echo …

Rose Terry Cooke English
Arachne

I watch her in the corner there,
As, restless, bold, and unafraid,
She slips and floats along the air …

Rose Terry Cooke English
Bluebeard's Closet

Fasten the chamber!
Hide the red key;
Cover the portal, …

Rose Terry Cooke English
Lise

If i were a cloud in heaven,
I would hang over thee;
If I were a star of even, …

Rose Terry Cooke English