Love Poems – Page 2506

We Lay Us Down to Sleep

We lay us down to sleep,
And leave to God the rest:
Whether to wake and weep …

Louise Chandler Moulton English
Louisa May Alcott

As the wind at play with a spark
Of fire that glows through the night,
As the speed of the soaring lark …

Louise Chandler Moulton English
Love's Resurrection Day

Round among the quiet graves,
When the sun was low,
Love went grieving,—Love who saves: …

Louise Chandler Moulton English
To John Greenleaf Whittier

Dear singer of our fathers’ day,
Who lingerest in the sunset glow,
Our grateful hearts all bid thee stay; …

William Hayes Ward English
The New Castalia

Out of a cavern on Parnassus’ side,
Flows Castaly; and with the flood outblown
From its deep heart of ice, the mountain’s breath …

William Hayes Ward English
My New World

my prow is tending toward the west,
Old voices growing faint, dear faces dim,
And all that I have loved the best …

Irving Browne English
At Shakespeare's Grave

Dismiss your apprehension, pseudo bard,
For no one wishes to disturb these stones,
Nor cares if here or in the outer yard …

Irving Browne English
Man's Pillow

A baby lying on his mother’s breast
Draws life from that sweet fount;
He takes his rest …

Irving Browne English
Poetry

Something more than the lilt of the strain,
Something more than the touch of the lute;
For the voice of the minstrel is vain, …

Lucius Harwood Foote English
On the Heights

He crawls along the mountain walls,
From whence the severed river falls;
Its seething waters writhe and twist, …

Lucius Harwood Foote English