Love Poems – Page 2535

To Shelley

at shelley’s birth,
The Lark, dawn-spirit, with an anthem loud
Rose from the dusky earth …

John Banister Tabb English
The Sisters

The waves forever move;
The hills forever rest:
Yet each the heavens approve, …

John Banister Tabb English
Anonymous

Anonymous—nor needs a name
To tell the secret whence the flame,
With light, and warmth, and incense, came …

John Banister Tabb English
Clover

Little masters, hat in hand
Let me in your presence stand,
Till your silence solve for me …

John Banister Tabb English
The Departed

They cannot wholly pass away,
How far soe’er above;
Nor we, the lingerers, wholly stay …

John Banister Tabb English
The Druid

Godlike beneath his grave divinities,
The last of all their worshippers, he stood.
The shadows of a vanished multitude …

John Banister Tabb English
Helen

The autumn seems to cry for thee,
Best lover of the autumn days!
Each scarlet-tipped and wine-red tree, …

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey English
Gulf Stream

Lonely and cold and fierce I keep my way,
Scourge of the lands, companioned by the storm,
Tossing to heaven my frontlet, wild and gray, …

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey English
Night after Night

Night after night we dauntlessly embark
On slumber’s stream, in whose deep waves are drowned
Sorrow and care, and with all senses bound …

Gertrude Bloede English
My Father's Child

About her head or floating feet
No halo’s starry gleam,
Still dark and swift uprising, like …

Gertrude Bloede English