Love Poems – Page 2493

Done For

A week ago to-day, when red-haired Sally
DOWN to the sugar-camp came to see me,
I saw her checked frock coming down the valley, …

Rose Terry Cooke English
In Vain

Put every tiny robe away!
The stitches all were set with tears,
Slow, tender drops of joys; to-day …

Rose Terry Cooke English
The Blue and the Gray

By the flow of the inland river,
Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, …

Francis Miles Finch English
The Vagabonds

We are two travellers, Roger and I.
Roger ’s my dog.—Come here, you scamp!
Jump for the gentlemen,—mind your eye! …

John Townsend Trowbridge English
Midwinter

The speckled sky is dim with snow,
The light flakes falter and fall slow;
Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, …

John Townsend Trowbridge English
Midsummer

Around this lovely valley rise
The purple hills of Paradise.
O, softly on you banks of haze, …

John Townsend Trowbridge English
The Word of God to Leyden Came

The word of God to Leyden came,
Dutch town by Zuyder-Zee;
Rise up, my children of no name, …

Jeremiah Eames Rankin English
The Babie

Nae shoon to hide her tiny taes,
Nae stockin’ on her feet;
Her supple ankles white as snaw, …

Jeremiah Eames Rankin English
Twilight at Sea

The twilight hours like birds flew by,
As lightly and as free;
Ten thousand stars were in the sky, …

Amelia Coppuck Welby English
Why Thus Longing?

Why thus longing, thus for ever sighing,
For the far-off, unattained, and dim,
While the beautiful, all round thee lying, …

Harriet Winslow Sewall English