Love Poems – Page 2504

The Guerdon

To the quick brow Fame grudges her best wreath
While the quick heart to enjoy it throbs beneath:
On the dead forehead’s sculptured marble shown, …

John James Piatt English
Torch-Light in Autumn

I lift this sumach-bough with crimson flare,
And, touched with subtle pangs of dreamy pain,
Through the dark wood a torch I seem to bear …

John James Piatt English
Leaves at My Window

I watch the leaves that flutter in the wind,
Bathing my eyes with coolness and my heart
Filling with springs of grateful sense anew, …

John James Piatt English
The Lost Genius

A giant came to me when I was young,
My instant will to ask—
My earthly Servant, from the earth he sprung …

John James Piatt English
Purpose

strong in thy steadfast purpose, be
Like some brave master of the sea,
Whose keel, by Titan pulses quickened, knows …

John James Piatt English
Phantoms All

Come, all you sailors of the southern waters,
You apparitions of the Spanish main,
Who dyed the jewelled depths blood-red with slaughters, …

Harriet Prescott Spofford English
Evanescence

What ’s the brightness of a brow?
What ’s a mouth of pearls and corals?
Beauty vanishes like a vapor, …

Harriet Prescott Spofford English
Music in the Night

When stars pursue their solemn flight,
Oft in the middle of the night,
A strain of music visits me, …

Harriet Prescott Spofford English
A Sigh

It was nothing but a rose I gave her,—
Nothing but a rose
Any wind might rob of half its savor, …

Harriet Prescott Spofford English
The Pines

Couldst thou, Great Fairy, give to me
The instant’s wish, that I might see
Of all the earth’s that one dear sight …

Harriet Prescott Spofford English