Love Poems – Page 2537

The Death of Azron

He caught his chisel, hastened to his bench,
And, kneeling on one knee before one more
Pale page of uncarved marble, murmured fast, …

Alice Wellington Rollins English
Many Things Thou Hast Given Me, Dear Heart

Many things thou hast given me, dear heart;
But one thing thou hast taken: that high dream
Of heaven as of a country that should seem …

Alice Wellington Rollins English
Vita Benefica

On softest pillows my dim eyes unclose;
No pain,—delicious weariness instead;
Sweet silence broods around the quiet bed, …

Alice Wellington Rollins English
The Blazing Heart

who are ye, spirits, that stand
In the outer gloom,
Each with a blazing heart in hand, …

Alice Williams Brotherton English
My Enemy

I
my foe was dark, and stern, and grim,
I lived my life in fear of him. …

Alice Williams Brotherton English
With a Spray of Apple Blossoms

The promise of these fragrant flowers,
The fruit that ’neath these blossoms lies
Once hung, they say, in Eden’s bowers, …

Walter Learned English
The Last Reservation

Sullen and dull, in the September day,
On the bank of the river,
They waited the boat that should bear them away …

Walter Learned English
On the Fly-Leaf of Manon Lescaut

To you, whose temperate pulses flow
With measured beat, serene and slow,
The even tenor of whose way …

Walter Learned English
In Explanation

Her lips were so near
That—what else could I do?
You ’ll be angry, I fear, …

Walter Learned English
To Critics

When i was seventeen I heard
From each censorious tongue,
“I ’d not do that if I were you; …

Walter Learned English