Love Poems – Page 2525

Presentiment

With saintly grace and reverent tread
She walked among the graves with me;
Her every footfall seemed to be …

Ambrose Bierce English
Creation

God dreamed—the suns sprang flaming into place,
And sailing worlds with many a venturous race.
He woke—His smile alone illumined space.

Ambrose Bierce English
T - A. H. by Ambrose Bierce

Yes, he was that, or that, as you prefer,—
Did so and so, though, faith, it was n’t all;
Lived like a fool, or a philosopher, …

English
The Royal Mummy to Bohemia

Wherefore these revels that my dull eyes greet?
These dancers, dancing at my fleshless feet;
The harpers, harping vainly at my ears …

Charles Warren Stoddard English
Wind and Wave

o, when I hear at sea
The water on our lee,
I fancy that I hear the wind …

Charles Warren Stoddard English
Albatross

Time cannot age thy sinews, nor the gale
Batter the network of thy feathered mail,
Lone sentry of the deep! …

Charles Warren Stoddard English
The Cocoa-Tree

Cast on the water by a careless hand,
Day after day the winds persuaded me:
Onward I drifted till a coral tree …

Charles Warren Stoddard English
Vanquished

I
not by the ball or brand
Sped by a mortal hand, …

Francis Fisher Browne English
Under the Blue

The skies are low, the winds are slow,
The woods are filled with autumn glory;
The mists are still on field and hill, …

Francis Fisher Browne English
Santa Barbara

Between the mountains and the sea,
Walled by the rock, fringed by the foam,
A valley stretches fair and free …

Francis Fisher Browne English