Love Poems – Page 2526

The Wind-Swept Wheat

Faint, faint and clear,
Faint as the music that in dreams we hear
Shaking the curtain-fold of sleep, …

Mary Ainge De Vere English
Faith Trembling

Were i a happy bird,
Building my little nest each early spring,
It might be easy then to keep God’s word, …

Mary Ainge De Vere English
The Spinner

The spinner twisted her slender thread
As she sat and spun:
“The earth and the heavens are mine,” she said, …

Mary Ainge De Vere English
When the Most Is Said

What ’s love, when the most is said? The flash of the lightning fleet,
Then, darkness that shrouds the soul,—but the earth is firm to my feet;
The rocks and the tides endure, the grasses and herbs return, …

Mary Ainge De Vere English
Poet and Lark

When leaves turn outward to the light,
And all the roads are fringed with green,
When larks are pouring, high, unseen, …

Mary Ainge De Vere English
A Breath

A breath can fan love’s flame to burning,—
Make firm resolve of trembling doubt.
But, strange! at fickle fancy’s turning, …

Mary Ainge De Vere English
Friend and Lover

When psyche’s friend becomes her lover,
How sweetly these conditions blend!
But, oh, what anguish to discover …

Mary Ainge De Vere English
God Keep You

God keep you, dearest, all this lonely night:
The winds are still,
The moon drops down behind the western hill; …

Mary Ainge De Vere English
The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor

“praise ye the Lord!” The psalm to-day
Still rises on our ears,
Borne from the hills of Boston Bay …

Hezekiah Butterworth English
Carmen Bellicosum

in their ragged regimentals,
Stood the old Continentals,
Yielding not, …

Guy Humphreys McMaster English