Love Poems – Page 2495
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Waves
All day the waves assailed the rock, / I heard no church-bell chime; / The sea-beat scorns the minster clock … -
Terminus
It is time to be old, / To take in sail: / The god of bounds, … -
Threnody
The south-wind brings / Life, sunshine, and desire, / And on every mount and meadow … -
Concord Hymn
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, / Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, / Here once the embattled farmers stood, … -
The Test
I hung my verses in the wind, / Time and tide their faults may find. / All were winnowed through and through, … -
Liberty for All
They tell me, Liberty! that in thy name / I may not plead for all the human race; / That some are born to bondage and disgrace, … -
Freedom for the Mind
High walls and huge the body may confine, / And iron grates obstruct the prisoner’s gaze, / And massive bolts may baffle his design, … -
Parrhasius
There stood an unsold captive in the mart, / A gray-haired and majestical old man, / Chained to a pillar. It was almost night, … -
Unseen Spirits
The shadows lay along Broadway, / ’T was near the twilight-tide, / And slowly there a lady fair … -
The Torn Hat
There ’s something in a noble boy, / A brave, free-hearted, careless one, / With his unchecked, unbidden joy, …
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