Love Poems – Page 2498

Morn

In what a strange bewilderment do we
Awake each morn from out the brief night’s sleep.
Our struggling consciousness doth grope and creep …

Helen Fiske Jackson English
Emigravit

With sails full set, the ship her anchor weighs.
Strange names shine out beneath her figure head.
What glad farewells with eager eyes are said! …

Helen Fiske Jackson English
Poppies in the Wheat

Along ancona’s hills the shimmering heat,
A tropic tide of air, with ebb and flow
Bathes all the fields of wheat until they glow …

Helen Fiske Jackson English
A Last Prayer

Father, i scarcely dare to pray,
So clear I see, now it is done,
That I have wasted half my day, …

Helen Fiske Jackson English
Habeas Corpus

My body, eh? Friend Death, how now?
Why all this tedious pomp of writ?
Thou hast reclaimed it sure and slow …

Helen Fiske Jackson English
Samuel Hoar

A year ago how often did I meet
Under these elms, once more in sober bloom,
Thy tall, sad figure pacing down the street,— …

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn English
Ariana

Sweet saint! whose rising dawned upon the sight
Like fair Aurora chasing mists away,
Our ocean billows, and thy western height …

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn English
At Chappaqua

His cherished woods are mute. The stream glides down
The hill as when I knew it years ago;
The dark, pine arbor with its priestly gown …

Joel Benton English
The Scarlet Tanager

A ball of fire shoots through the tamarack
In scarlet splendor, on voluptuous wings;
Delirious joy the pyrotechnist brings, …

Joel Benton English
Sea-Birds

O lonesome sea-gull, floating far
Over the ocean’s icy waste,
Aimless and wide thy wanderings are, …

Elizabeth Akers Allen English