Love Poems – Page 2511

Divided

The half-world’s width divides us; where she sits
Noonday has broadened o’er the prairied West;
For me, beneath an alien sky, unblest, …

David Gray English
The Cross of Gold

The fifth from the north wall;
Row innermost; and the pall
Plain black—all black—except …

David Gray English
Appreciation

To the sea-shell’s spiral round
’T is your heart that brings the sound:
The soft sea-murmurs that you hear …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
To Hafiz

Though gifts like thine the fates gave not to me,
One thing, O Hafiz, we both hold in fee—
Nay, it holds us; for when the June wind blows …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan

when the Sultan Shah-Zaman
Goes to the city Ispahan,
Even before he gets so far …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
Palabras Carinosas

Good-night! i have to say good-night
To such a host of peerless things!
Good-night unto the slender hand …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
Heredity

A soldier of the Cromwell stamp,
With sword and psalm-book by his side,
At home alike in church and camp: …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
Identity

Somewhere—in desolate wind-swept space—
In Twilight-land—in No-man’s-land—
Two hurrying Shapes met face to face, …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
Unguarded Gates

Wide open and unguarded stand our gates,
Named of the four winds, North, South, East, and West;
Portals that lead to an enchanted land …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
Guilielmus Rex

The folk who lived in Shakespeare’s day
And saw that gentle figure pass
By London Bridge, his frequent way— …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English