Love Poems – Page 2536

Soul, Wherefore Fret Thee?

Soul, wherefore fret thee? Striving still to throw
Some light upon the primal mystery
Through rolling ages pondered ceaselessly, …

Gertrude Bloede English
Out of the Old House, Nancy

Out of the old house, Nancy—moved up into the new;
All the hurry and worry is just as good as through.
Only a bounden duty remains for you and I— …

Will Carleton English
When the Grass Shall Cover Me

when the grass shall cover me,
Head to foot where I am lying;
When not any wind that blows, …

Ina Coolbrith English
The Mariposa Lily

Insect or blossom? Fragile, fairy thing,
Poised upon slender tip, and quivering
To flight! a flower of the fields of air; …

Ina Coolbrith English
Fruitionless

Ah! little flower, upspringing, azure-eyed,
The meadow-brook beside,
Dropping delicious balms …

Ina Coolbrith English
Helen Hunt Jackson

What songs found voice upon those lips,
What magic dwelt within the pen,
Whose music into silence slips, …

Ina Coolbrith English
The Kearsarge

in the gloomy ocean bed
Dwelt a formless thing, and said,
In the dim and countless eons long ago, …

James Jeffrey Roche English
Andromeda

They chained her fair young body to the cold and cruel stone;
The beast begot of sea and slime had marked her for his own;
The callous world beheld the wrong, and left her there alone. …

James Jeffrey Roche English
My Comrade

The love of man and woman is as fire,
To warm, to light, but surely to consume
And self-consuming die. There is no room …

James Jeffrey Roche English
The Skeleton at the Feast

We summoned not the Silent Guest,
And no man spake his name;
By lips unseen our Cup was pressed, …

James Jeffrey Roche English