Love Poems – Page 2547

A Look into the Gulf

I looked one night, and there Semiramis,
With all her mourning doves about her head,
Sat rocking on an ancient road of Hell, …

Edwin Markham English
The Last Furrow

The spirit OF EARTH with still, restoring hands,
Mid ruin moves, in glimmering chasm gropes,
And mosses mantle and the bright flower opes; …

Edwin Markham English
The Whirlwind Road

The muses wrapped in mysteries of light
Came in a rush of music on the night;
And I was lifted wildly on quick wings, …

Edwin Markham English
Joy of the Morning

I hear you, little bird,
Shouting a-swing above the broken wall.
Shout louder yet: no song can tell it all. …

Edwin Markham English
England

Thou art as a lone watcher on a rock,
With Saxon hair back floating in the wind,
Gazing where stranger ships, to doom consigned, …

Richard Edwin Day English
To Shakespeare

Thou, who didst lay all other bosoms bare,
Impenetrable shade didst round thee throw;
And of the ready tears thou makest flow, …

Richard Edwin Day English
Maurice de Guerin

The old wine filled him, and he saw, with eyes
Anoint of Nature, fauns and dryads fair
Unseen by others; to him maidenhair …

Maurice Francis Egan English
He Made Us Free

As flame streams upward, so my longing thought
Flies up with Thee,
Thou God and Saviour, who hast truly wrought …

Maurice Francis Egan English
The Old Violin

Though tuneless, stringless, it lies there in dust,
Like some great thought on a forgotten page;
The soul of music cannot fade or rust,— …

Maurice Francis Egan English
The Shamrock

When april rains make flowers bloom
And Johnny-jump-ups come to light,
And clouds of color and perfume …

Maurice Francis Egan English