Love Poems – Page 2494

Balder's Wife

Her casement like a watchful eye
From the face of the wall looks down,
Lashed round with ivy vines so dry, …

Alice Cary English
Nearer Home

One sweetly solemn thought
Comes to me o’er and o’er;
I am nearer home to-day …

Phoebe Cary English
The Master's Invitation

Dear lord, thy table is outspread;
What other could such feast afford?
And thou art waiting at the head, …

Anson Davies Fitz Randolph English
To a Young Child

As doth his heart who travels far from home
Leap up whenever he by chance doth see
One from his mother-country lately come, …

Eliza Scudder English
The Pilgrim

A pilgrim am I, on my way
To seek and find the Holy Land;
Scarce had I started, when there lay …

Sarah Hammond Palfrey English
A Strip of Blue

I do not own an inch of land,
But all I see is mine,—
The orchard and the mowing-fields, …

Lucy Larcom English
'T is but a Little Faded Flower

’t is but a little faded flower,
But oh, how fondly dear!
’T will bring me back one golden hour, …

Ellen Clementine Howarth English
Olivia

What are the long waves singing so mournfully evermore?
What are they singing so mournfully as they weep on the sandy shore?
“Olivia, oh, Olivia!”—what else can it seem to be? …

Edward Pollock English
Under the Snow

It was Christmas Eve in the year fourteen,
And, as ancient dalesmen used to tell,
The wildest winter they ever had seen, …

Robert Collyer English
Tacking Ship off Shore

The weather-leech of the topsail shivers,
The bowlines strain, and the lee-shrouds slacken,
The braces are taut, the lithe boom quivers, …

Walter Mitchell English