Love Poems – Page 2538

Posthumous

Put them in print?
Make one more dint
In the ages’ furrowed rock? No, no! …

Henry Augustin Beers English
On a Miniature

Thine old-world eyes—each one a violet
Big as the baby rose that is thy mouth—
Set me a-dreaming. Have our eyes not met …

Henry Augustin Beers English
Biftek Aux Champignons

Mimi, do you remember—
Don’t get behind your fan—
That morning in September …

Henry Augustin Beers English
Ecce in Deserto

The wilderness a secret keeps
Upon whose guess I go:
Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard; …

Henry Augustin Beers English
The Singer of One Song

He sang one song and died—no more but that:
A single song and carelessly complete.
He would not bind and thresh his chance-grown wheat, …

Henry Augustin Beers English
Duality

Within me are two souls that pity each
The other for the ends they seek, yet smile
Forgiveness, as two friends that love the while …

Arthur Sherburne Hardy English
Iter Supremum

Oh, what a night for a soul to go!
The wind a hawk, and the fields in snow;
No screening cover of leaves in the wood, …

Arthur Sherburne Hardy English
From "Wishmakers' Town"

I
the bells
awake! Awake! …

William Young English
Judith

Flower of youth, in the ancient frame—
Maid of the mettlesome lip and eye,
Lightly wearing the fateful name, …

William Young English
Philomel to Corydon

Shepherd, wilt thou take counsel of the bird
That oft hath hearkened, from this leafy lair,
To love’s entreaty, and the parting word?— …

William Young English