Love Poems – Page 2502

Indirection

Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer;
Rare is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it is rarer;
Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter; …

Richard Realf English
The Word

O earth! thou hast not any wind that blows
Which is not music; every weed of thine
Pressed rightly flows in aromatic wine; …

Richard Realf English
An Old Man's Idyl

By the waters of Life we sat together,
Hand in hand in the golden days
Of the beautiful early summer weather, …

Richard Realf English
Farewell to Summer

Summer is fading; the broad leaves that grew
So freshly green, when June was young, are falling;
And, all the whisper-haunted forest through, …

George Arnold English
Beer

Here,
with my beer
I sit, …

George Arnold English
World Music

Jubilant the music through the fields a-ringing,—
Carol, warble, whistle, pipe,—endless ways of singing,
Oriole, bobolink, melody of thrushes, …

Frances Louisa Bushnell English
Unfulfilment

Ah, june is here, but where is May?—
That lovely, shadowy thing,
Fair promiser of fairer day, …

Frances Louisa Bushnell English
In the Dark

Restless, to-night, and ill at ease,
And finding every place too strait,
I leave the porch shut in with trees, …

Frances Louisa Bushnell English
On Waking from a Dreamless Sleep

I waked; the sun was in the sky,
The face of heaven was fair;
The silence all about me lay, …

Annie Fields English
Theocritus

Ay! unto thee belong
The pipe and song,
Theocritus,— …

Annie Fields English