Love Poems – Page 2493

• The Crossed Swords

  swords crossed,—but not in strife! / The chiefs who drew them, parted by the space / Of two proud countries’ quarrel, face to face …

  by Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham

• Lake Superior

  “father of lakes!” thy waters bend / Beyond the eagle’s utmost view, / When, throned in heaven, he sees thee send …

  by Samuel Griswold Goodrich

• The Hour of Peaceful Rest

  There is an hour of peaceful rest / To mourning wanderers given; / There is a joy for souls distrest, …

  by William Bingham Tappan

• Song of the Elfin Steersman

  One elf, I trow, is diving now / For the small pearl; and one, / The honey-bee for his bag he …

  by George Hill

• The Daughter of Mendoza

  O lend to me, sweet nightingale, / Your music by the fountain, / And lend to me your cadences, …

  by Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar

• The Green Isle of Lovers

  They say that, afar in the land of the west, / Where the bright golden sun sinks in glory to rest, / Mid ferns where the hunter ne’er ventured to tread, …

  by Robert Charles Sands

• The Lonely Bugle Grieves

  the trump hath blown, / And now upon that reeking hill / Slaughter rides screaming on the vengeful ball; …

  by Grenville Mellen

• The World I Am Passing Through

  Few, in the days of early youth, / Trusted like me in love and truth. / I ’ve learned sad lessons from the years; …

  by Lydia Maria Child

• Evening Hymn

  Slowly by God’s hand unfurled, / Down around the weary world / Falls the darkness; oh, how still …

  by William Henry Furness

• Each and All

  Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown / Of thee from the hill-top looking down; / The heifer that lows in the upland farm, …

  by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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