Love Poems – Page 2539

The High Tide at Gettysburg

A cloud possessed the hollow field,
The gathering battle’s smoky shield.
Athwart the gloom the lightning flashed, …

Will Henry Thompson English
Come Love or Death

O lifted face of mute appeal!
Poor tongueless pantomime of prayer!
O sullen sea, whose deeps conceal …

Will Henry Thompson English
Arcana Sylvarum

Hark!…
what booming
Faints on the high-strung ear? …

Charles de Kay English
Ulf in Ireland

What then, what if my lips do burn,
Husband, husband;
What though thou see’st my red lips burn, …

Charles de Kay English
The Tsigane's Canzonet

I
no! no!
Bird in the darkness singing, …

Edward King English
A Woman's Execution

Sweet-breathed and young,
The people’s daughter,
No nerves unstrung, …

Edward King English
Thoralf and Synnov

O, have you been in Gudbrand’s dale, where Laagen’s mighty flood
Chants evermore its wild refrain unto the listening wood?
And have you seen the evening sun on those bright glaciers glow, …

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen English
The Plough-Hands' Song

Nigger mighty happy w’en he layin’ by co’n—
Dat sun ’s a-slantin’;
Nigger mighty happy w’en he year de dinner ho’n— …

Joel Chandler Harris English
My Honey, My Love

Hit ’s a mighty fur ways up de Far’well Lane,
My honey, my love!
You may ax Mister Crow, you may ax Mister Crane, …

Joel Chandler Harris English
The Happiest Heart

Who drives the horses of the sun
Shall lord it but a day;
Better the lowly deed were done, …

John Vance Cheney English