Love Poems – Page 2517

Madrono

Captain of the Western wood,
Thou that apest Robin Hood!
Green above thy scarlet hose, …

Francis Bret Harte English
Europa

great sovereign of the earth and sea,
Whose sceptre shall forever be
The reign supreme of Liberty, …

Stephen Henry Thayer English
Poet of Earth

Oh, be not ether-borne, poet of earth;
Stretch not thy wings to such a cloudless height
As ne’er to know the darkness of the night, …

Stephen Henry Thayer English
The Waiting Chords

Heedless she strayed from note to note,
A maid, scarce knowing that she sang;
The dainty accents from her throat …

Stephen Henry Thayer English
Evelyn

if i could know
That here about the place where last you played,—
Within this room, and yonder in the shade …

Rossiter Johnson English
A Soldier Poet

Where swell the songs thou shouldst have sung
By peaceful rivers yet to flow?
Where bloom the smiles thy ready tongue …

Rossiter Johnson English
The Ride to Cherokee

It ’s only we, Grimalkin, both fond and fancy free,
So do your best, my beauty, for a home for you and me;
For you the oats and leisure, for me the pipe and book, …

Amelia Walstien Carpenter English
Recollection

A silver birch-tree like a sacred maid
Set with a guard of stalwart hemlocks round,
Whose low-toned airs stole by with sighing sound, …

Amelia Walstien Carpenter English
Old Flemish Lace

A long, rich breadth of Holland lace,
A window by a Flemish sea;
Huge men go by with mighty pace,— …

Amelia Walstien Carpenter English
Believe and Take Heart

What can console for a dead world?
We tread on dust which once was life;
To nothingness all things are hurled: …

John Lancaster Spalding English