Love Poems – Page 2499

My Dearling

My dearling!—thus, in days long fled,
In spite of creed and court and queen,
King Henry wrote to Anne Boleyn,— …

Elizabeth Akers Allen English
The Last Landlord

You who dread the cares and labors
Of the tenant’s annual quest,
You who long for peace and rest, …

Elizabeth Akers Allen English
In a Garret

This realm is sacred to the silent past;
Within its drowsy shades are treasures rare
Of dust and dreams; the years are long since last …

Elizabeth Akers Allen English
Rock Me to Sleep

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
Make me a child again just for to-night!
Mother, come back from the echoless shore, …

Elizabeth Akers Allen English
Embryo

I feel a poem in my heart to-night,
A still thing growing,—
As if the darkness to the outer light …

Mary Ashley Townsend English
A Georgia Volunteer

Far up the lonely mountain-side
My wandering footsteps led;
The moss lay thick beneath my feet, …

Mary Ashley Townsend English
Music and Memory

Enchantress, touch no more that strain!
I know not what it may contain,
But in my breast such mood it wakes …

John Albee English
A Soldier's Grave

Break not his sweet repose—
Thou whom chance brings to this sequestered ground,
The sacred yard his ashes close, …

John Albee English
Landor

Come, walter Savage Landor, come this way;
Step through the lintel low, with prose or verse,
Tallest of latter men; the early star …

John Albee English
Bos'n Hill

The wind blows wild on Bos’n Hill,
Far off is heard the ocean’s rote;
Low overhead the gulls scream shrill, …

John Albee English