Love Poems – Page 2534

A Flight Shot

We were twin brothers, tall and hale,
Glad wanderers over hill and dale.
We stood within the twilight shade …

Maurice Thompson English
A Creole Slave-Song

What bird is that, with voice so sweet,
Sings to the sun from yonder tree?
What girl is that so slim and fleet, …

Maurice Thompson English
A Prophecy

Old soldiers true, ah, them all men can trust,
Who fought, with conscience clear, on either side;
Who bearded Death and thought their cause was just; …

Maurice Thompson English
Changelings

the ghosts of flowers went sailing
Through the dreamy autumn air,—
The gossamer wings of the milkweed brown, …

Mary Thacher Higginson English
Ghost-Flowers

In shining groups, each stem a pearly ray,
Weird flecks of light within the shadowed wood,
They dwell aloof, a spotless sisterhood. …

Mary Thacher Higginson English
Inheritance

We wondered why he always turned aside
When mirth and gladness filled the brimming days:
Who else so fit as he for pleasure’s ways? …

Mary Thacher Higginson English
Poe's Cottage at Fordham

Here lived the soul enchanted
By melody of song;
Here dwelt the spirit haunted …

John Henry Boner English
We Walked among the Whispering Pines

It was a still autumnal day—
So sadly still and strangely bright—
The hectic glow of quick decay …

John Henry Boner English
The Light'ood Fire

When wintry days are dark and drear
And all the forest ways grow still,
When gray snow-laden clouds appear …

John Henry Boner English
The Water-Lily

Whence, o fragrant form of light,
Hast thou drifted through the night,
Swanlike, to a leafy nest, …

John Banister Tabb English