Love Poems – Page 2495

Antony to Cleopatra

I am dying, Egypt, dying!
Ebbs the crimson life-tide fast,
And the dark Plutonian shadows …

William Haines Lytle English
The Second Mate

“ho, there! Fisherman, hold your hand!
Tell me, what is that far away,—
There, where over the isle of sand …

Fitz-James O'Brien English
To an Autumn Leaf

The scarlet tide of summer’s life
Is ebbing toward a shoreless sea;
Late fell before the reaper’s knife …

Albert Mathews English
Ebb and Flow

I walked beside the evening sea,
And dreamed a dream that could not be;
The waves that plunged along the shore …

George William Curtis English
Thalatta! Thalatta!

I stand upon the summit of my life:
Behind, the camp, the court, the field, the grove,
The battle and the burden; vast, afar, …

Joseph Brownlee Brown English
Incognita of Raphael

Long has the summer sunlight shone
On the fair form, the quaint costume;
Yet, nameless still, she sits, unknown, …

William Allen Butler English
On One Who Died in May

Why, death, what dost thou here,
This time o’ year?
Peach-blow and apple-blossom; …

Clarence Chatham Cook English
But Once

Tell me, wide wandering soul, in all thy quest
Sipping or draining deep from crystal rim
Where pleasure sparkled, when did over brim …

Theodore Winthrop English
Alma Mater's Roll

I saw her scan her sacred scroll,
I saw her read her record roll
Of men who wrought to win the right, …

Edward Everett Hale English
Bookra

One night I lay asleep in Africa,
In a closed garden by the city gate;
A desert horseman, furious and late, …

Charles Dudley Warner English