Love Poems – Page 2541

The Cranes of Ibycus

There was a man who watched the river flow
Past the huge town, one gray November day.
Round him in narrow high-piled streets at play …

Emma Lazarus English
The Banner of the Jew

Wake, israel, wake! Recall to-day
The glorious Maccabean rage,
The sire heroic, hoary-gray, …

Emma Lazarus English
The Crowing of the Red Cock

Across the Eastern sky has glowed
The flicker of a blood-red dawn;
Once more the clarion cock has crowed, …

Emma Lazarus English
The New Ezekiel

What, can these dead bones live, whose sap is dried
By twenty scorching centuries of wrong?
Is this the House of Israel, whose pride …

Emma Lazarus English
My Letter

From far away, from far away,
It journeyed swiftly night and day,
It rested not. With cruel haste …

Grace Denio Litchfield English
To a Hurt Child

What, are you hurt, Sweet? So am I;
Cut to the heart;
Though I may neither moan nor cry, …

Grace Denio Litchfield English
My Other Me

Children, do you ever,
In walks by land or sea,
Meet a little maiden …

Grace Denio Litchfield English
The Andalusian Sereno

With oaken staff and swinging lantern bright,
He strolls at midnight when the world is still
Through dismal lanes and plazas plumed with light, …

Francis Saltus Saltus English
The Sphinx Speaks

Carved by a mighty race whose vanished hands
Formed empires more destructible than I,
In sultry silence I forever lie, …

Francis Saltus Saltus English
The Bayadere

Near strange, weird temples, where the Ganges’ tide
Bathes domed Lahore, I watched, by spice-trees fanned,
Her agile form in some quaint saraband, …

Francis Saltus Saltus English