Love Poems – Page 2531

The Children

When the lessons and tasks are all ended,
And the school for the day is dismissed,
The little ones gather around me, …

Charles Monroe Dickinson English
The Doves of Venice

As the Transatlantic tourists
Have been rowed on the Lagoon,
They have mourned its ancient glories, …

Laurence Hutton English
Mother Goose Sonnets - Morgridge

Jack and JILL
AH, Jack it was, and with him little Jill,
Of the same age and size, a neighbor’s daughter, …

Harriet S English
A Threnody

What, what, what,
What ’s the news from Swat?
Sad news, …

George Thomas Lanigan English
The Celestial Passion

O white and midnight sky! O starry bath!
Wash me in thy pure, heavenly, crystal flood;
Cleanse me, ye stars, from earthly soil and scath; …

Richard Watson Gilder English
I Count My Time

I count my time by times that I meet thee;
These are my yesterdays, my morrows, noons,
And nights; these my old moons and my new moons. …

Times That I Meet Thee English
On the Life-Mask of Abraham Lincoln

This bronze doth keep the very form and mould
Of our great martyr’s face. Yes, this is he:
That brow all wisdom, all benignity; …

Richard Watson Gilder English
Evening in Tyringham Valley

What domes and pinnacles of mist and fire
Are builded in yon spacious realms of light
All silently, as did the walls aspire …

Richard Watson Gilder English
Sherman

Glory and honor and fame and everlasting laudation
For our captains who loved not war, but fought for the life of the nation;
Who knew that, in all the land, one slave meant strife, not peace; …

Richard Watson Gilder English
Hast Thou Heard the Nightingale?

Yes, i have heard the nightingale.
As in dark woods I wandered,
And dreamed and pondered, …

Richard Watson Gilder English