Love Poems – Page 2518

The Starry Host

The countless stars, which to our human eye
Are fixed and steadfast, each in proper place,
Forever bound to changeless points in space, …

John Lancaster Spalding English
Forepledged

O woman, let thy heart not cleave
To any poet’s soul;
For he the muse will never leave, …

John Lancaster Spalding English
From "God and the Soul"

Nature and THE CHILD
FOR many blessings I to God upraise
A thankful heart; the life He gives is fair …

John Lancaster Spalding English
The Reed

Beneath the Memnonian shadows of Memphis, it rose from the slime,
A reed of the river, self-hid, as though shunning the curse of its crime,
And it shook as it measured in whispers the lapses of tide and of time. …

Henry Bernard Carpenter English
Medusa

One calm and cloudless winter night,
Under a moonless sky,
Whence I had seen the gracious light …

Robert Kelley Weeks English
A Song for Lexington

The spring came earlier on
Than usual that year;
The shadiest snow was gone, …

Robert Kelley Weeks English
Man and Nature

O steadfast trees that know
Rain, hail, and sleet, and snow,
And all the winds that blow; …

Robert Kelley Weeks English
The Making of Man

As the insect from the rock
Takes the color of its wing;
As the boulder from the shock …

John White Chadwick English
The Golden-Robin's Nest

The golden-robin came to build his nest
High in the elm-tree’s ever-nodding crest;
All the long day, upon his task intent, …

John White Chadwick English
Recognition

When souls that have put off their mortal gear
Stand in the pure, sweet light of heaven’s day,
And wondering deeply what to do or say, …

John White Chadwick English