Love Poems – Page 2524

A Ballad of Trees and the Master

Into the woods my Master went,
Clean forspent, forspent.
Into the woods my Master came, …

Sidney Lanier English
Sunrise

In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain
Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main.
The little green leaves would not let me alone in my sleep; …

Sidney Lanier English
My Uninvited Guest

One day there entered at my chamber door
A presence whose light footfall on the floor
No token gave; and, ere I could withstand, …

May Riley Smith English
Donald

O white, white, light moon, that sailest in the sky,
Look down upon the whirling world, for thou art up so high,
And tell me where my Donald is who sailed across the sea, …

Henry Abbey English
Winter Days

Now comes the graybeard of the north:
The forests bare their rugged breasts
To every wind that wanders forth, …

Henry Abbey English
In Memory of General Grant

White wings of commerce sailing far,
Hot steam that drives the weltering wheel,
Tamed lightning speeding on the wire, …

Henry Abbey English
Faith's Vista

When from the vaulted wonder of the sky
The curtain of the light is drawn aside,
And I behold the stars in all their wide …

Henry Abbey English
The Death of Grant

Father! whose hard and cruel law
Is part of thy compassion’s plan,
Thy works presumptuously we scan …

Ambrose Bierce English
Another Way

I lay in silence, dead. A woman came
And laid a rose upon my breast, and said,
“May God be merciful.” She spoke my name, …

Ambrose Bierce English
Montefiore

I saw—’t was in a dream, the other night—
A man whose hair with age was thin and white;
One hundred years had bettered by his birth, …

Ambrose Bierce English