Love Poems – Page 2507

El Vaquero

Tinged with the blood of Aztec lands,
Sphinx-like, the tawny herdsman stands,
A coiled reata in his hands. …

Lucius Harwood Foote English
The Derelict

Unmoored, unmanned, unheeded on the deep—
Tossed by the restless billow and the breeze,
It drifts o’er sultry leagues of tropic seas, …

Lucius Harwood Foote English
God Save the Nation

Thou who ordainest, for the land’s salvation,
Famine, and fire, and sword, and lamentation,
Now unto Thee we lift our supplication,— …

Theodore Tilton English
Coeur de Lion to Berengaria

O far-off darling in the South,
Where grapes are loading down the vine,
And songs are in the throstle’s mouth, …

Theodore Tilton English
The Flight from the Convent

I see the star-lights quiver,
Like jewels in the river;
The bank is hid with sedge; …

Theodore Tilton English
Sir Marmaduke's Musings

I won a noble fame;
But, with a sudden frown,
The people snatched my crown, …

Theodore Tilton English
A Chrysalis

My little Mädchen found one day
A curious something in her play,
That was not fruit, nor flower, nor seed; …

Mary Emily Bradley English
In Death

How still the room is! But a while ago
The sound of sobbing voices vexed my ears,
And on my face there fell a rain of tears— …

Mary Emily Bradley English
Beyond Recall

There was a time when Death and I
Came face to face together:
I was but young indeed to die, …

Mary Emily Bradley English
A Spray of Honeysuckle

I broke one day a slender stem,
Thick-set with little golden horns,
Half bud, half blossom, and a gem— …

Mary Emily Bradley English