Love Poems – Page 2501

Morgan

Oh, what a set of Vagabundos,
Sons of Neptune, sons of Mars,
Raked from todos otros mundos, …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English
On a Great Man Whose Mind Is Clouding

That sovereign thought obscured? That vision clear
Dimmed in the shadow of the sable wing,
And fainter grown the fine interpreting …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English
Si Jeunesse Savait!

When the veil from the eyes is lifted
The seer’s head is gray;
When the sailor to shore has drifted …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English
Mors Benefica

Give me to die unwitting of the day,
And stricken in Life’s brave heat, with senses clear:
Not swathed and couched until the lines appear …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English
Quest

where broods the Absolute,
Or shuns our long pursuit
By fiery utmost pathways out of ken? …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English
Song of the Palm

I
wild is its nature, as it were a token,
Born of the sunshine, and the stars, and sea; …

Tracy Robinson English
With a Nantucket Shell

I send thee a shell from the ocean beach;
But listen thou well, for my shell hath speech.
Hold to thine ear, …

Charles Henry Webb English
March

The earth seems a desolate mother,—
Betrayed like the princess of old,
The ermine stripped from her shoulders, …

Charles Henry Webb English
Gil, the Toreador

The queen sat in her balcony,
The Loveliest of Spain;
Beneath rode all the chivalry, …

Charles Henry Webb English
Dum Vivimus Vigilemus

Turn out more ale, turn up the light;
I will not go to bed to-night.
Of all the foes that man should dread …

Charles Henry Webb English