Love Poems – Page 2512

Sargent's Portrait of Edwin Booth at "The Players"

That face which no man ever saw
And from his memory banished quite,
With eyes in which are Hamlet ’s awe …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
Tennyson

Shakespeare and Milton—what third blazoned name
Shall lips of after-ages link to these?
His who, beside the wild encircling sea …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
A Shadow of the Night

Close on the edge of a midsummer dawn
In troubled dreams I went from land to land,
Each seven-colored like the rainbow’s arc, …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
Prescience

The new moon hung in the sky,
The sun was low in the west,
And my betrothed and I …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
Thalia

I say it under the rose—
Oh, thanks!—yes, under the laurel,
We part lovers, not foes; …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
An Ode

I
not with slow, funereal sound
Come we to this sacred ground; …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
A Petition

To spring belongs the violet, and the blown
Spice of the roses let the summer own.
Grant me this favor, Muse—all else withhold— …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
In Earliest Spring

Tossing his mane of snows in wildest eddies and tangles,
Lion-like, March cometh in, hoarse, with tempestuous breath,
Through all the moaning chimneys, and thwart all the hollows and angles …

William Dean Howells English
The Two Wives

The colonel rode by his picket-line
In the pleasant morning sun,
That glanced from him far off to shine …

William Dean Howells English
From Generation to Generation

Innocent spirits, bright, immaculate ghosts!
Why throng your heavenly hosts,
As eager for their birth …

William Dean Howells English