Love Poems – Page 2545

Like to a Coin

Like to a coin, passing from hand to hand,
Are common memories, and day by day
The sharpness of their impress wears away. …

Arlo Bates English
The Watchers

We must be nobler for our dead, be sure,
Than for the quick. We might their living eyes
Deceive with gloss of seeming; but all lies …

Arlo Bates English
On the Road to Chorrera

Three horsemen galloped the dusty way
While sun and moon were both in the sky;
An old crone crouched in the cactus’ shade, …

Arlo Bates English
A Winter Twilight

Pale beryl sky, with clouds
Hued like dove’s wing,
O’ershadowing …

Arlo Bates English
Perdita

she dances,
And I seem to be
In primrose vales of Sicily, …

Florence Earle Coates English
Survival

The knell that dooms the voiceless and obscure
Stills Memnon’s music with its ghostly chime;
Strength is as weakness in the clasp of Time, …

Florence Earle Coates English
India

Silent amidst unbroken silence deep
Of dateless years, in loneliness supreme,
She pondered patiently one mighty theme, …

Florence Earle Coates English
The Flown Soul

Come not again! I dwell with you
Above the realm of frost and dew,
Of pain and fire, and growth to death. …

George Parsons Lathrop English
South-Wind

Soft-throated south, breathing of summer’s ease
(Sweet breath, whereof the violet ’s life is made!)
Through lips moist-warm, as thou hadst lately stayed …

George Parsons Lathrop English
The Sunshine of Thine Eyes

The sunshine of thine eyes,
(O still, celestial beam!)
Whatever it touches it fills …

George Parsons Lathrop English