Love Poems – Page 2529

A Living Memory

My absent daughter—gentle, gentle maid,
Your life doth never fade!
O, everywhere I see your blue eyes shine, …

William Augustus Croffut English
Waiting

Serene, i fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea;
I rave no more ’gainst time or fate, …

John Burroughs English
Dead Love

Two loves had I. Now both are dead,
And both are marked by tombstones white.
The one stands in the churchyard near, …

Mary Mathews Adams English
Disarmed

O love, so sweet at first.
So bitter in the end!
Thou canst be fiercest foe, …

Laura Redden Searing English
Post-Meridian

Afternoon
when in thy glass thou studiest thy face,
Not long, nor yet not seldom, half repelled …

Wendell Phillips Garrison English
Thoreau's Flute

We, sighing, said, “Our Pan is dead;
His pipe hangs mute beside the river;
Around it wistful sunbeams quiver, …

Louisa May Alcott English
Opportunity

“master of human destinies am I!
Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.
Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate …

John James Ingalls English
The Condemned

Read me no moral, priest, upon my life,—
Reserve that for your flock.
A few short hours will end my mortal strife, …

Edward Howland English
My Birth

I had my birth where stars were born,
In the dim æons of the past:
My cradle cosmic forces rocked, …

Minot Judson Savage English
The Inevitable

I like the man who faces what he must
With step triumphant and a heart of cheer;
Who fights the daily battle without fear; …

Sarah Knowles Bolton English