Love Poems – Page 2521

Riding Down

Oh, did you see him riding down,
And riding down, while all the town
Came out to see, came out to see, …

Nora Perry English
Who Knows?

Who knows the thoughts of a child,
The angel unreconciled
To the new strange world that lies …

Nora Perry English
Brook Song

brook, would thou couldst flow
With a music all thine own—
Thy babble of music alone— …

James Herbert Morse English
The Wild Geese

The wild geese, flying in the night, behold
Our sunken towns lie underneath a sea,
Which buoys them on its billows. Liberty …

James Herbert Morse English
His Statement of the Case

“now half a hundred years had I been born—
So many and so brief—when made aware,
By Time’s blunt looks, of hoar-frost in my hair. …

James Herbert Morse English
The Wayside

There are some quiet ways—
Ay, not a few—
Where the affections grow, …

James Herbert Morse English
At the Grave of Walker

He lies low in the levelled sand,
Unsheltered from the tropic sun,
And now of all he knew not one …

Joaquin Miller English
Westward Ho!

What strength! what strife! what rude unrest!
What shocks! what half-shaped armies met!
A mighty nation moving west, …

Joaquin Miller English
Crossing the Plains

What great yoked brutes with briskets low,
With wrinkled necks like buffalo,
With round, brown, liquid, pleading eyes, …

Joaquin Miller English
Vaquero

His broad-brimmed hat pushed back with careless air,
The proud vaquero sits his steed as free
As winds that toss his black abundant hair. …

Joaquin Miller English