Love Poems – Page 2500

Dandelions

Now dandelions in the short, new grass,
Through all their rapid stages daily pass;
No bee yet visits them; each has its place, …

John Albee English
Song from a Drama

Thou art mine, thou hast given thy word;
Close, close in my arms thou art clinging;
Alone for my ear thou art singing …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English
The Discoverer

i have a little kinsman
Whose earthly summers are but three,
And yet a voyager is he …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English
Pan in Wall Street

Just where the Treasury’s marble front
Looks over Wall Street’s mingled nations;
Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English
Kearny at Seven Pines

So that soldierly legend is still on its journey,—
That story of Kearny who knew not to yield!
’T was the day when with Jameson, fierce Berry, and Birney, …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English
The Hand of Lincoln

Look on this cast, and know the hand
That bore a nation in its hold:
From this mute witness understand …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English
Salem

Soe, mistress Anne, faire neighbour myne,
How rides a witche when nighte-winds blowe?
Folk saye that you are none too goode …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English
Falstaff's Song

Where ’s he that died o’ Wednesday?
What place on earth hath he?
A tailor’s yard beneath, I wot, …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English
The World Well Lost

That year? Yes, doubtless I remember still,—
Though why take count of every wind that blows!
’T was plain, men said, that Fortune used me ill …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English
Helen Keller

mute, sightless visitant,
From what uncharted world
Hast voyaged into Life’s rude sea, …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English