Love Poems – Page 2548

Russia

Saturnian mother! why dost thou devour
Thy offspring, who by loving thee are curst?
Why must they fear thee who would fain be first …

Nathan Haskell Dole English
To an Imperilled Traveller

Unflinching dante of a later day,
Thou who hast wandered through the realms of pain
And seen with aching breast and whirling brain …

Nathan Haskell Dole English
A Russian Fantasy

O’er the yellow crocus on the lawn
Floats a light white butterfly.
Breezes waft it! See, ’t is gone! …

Nathan Haskell Dole English
An Angler's Wish

I
when tulips bloom in Union Square,
And timid breaths of vernal air …

Henry Van Dyke English
The Veery

The moonbeams over Arno’s vale in silver flood were pouring,
When first I heard the nightingale a long-lost love deploring.
So passionate, so full of pain, it sounded strange and eerie; …

Henry Van Dyke English
Roslin and Hawthornden

Fair roslin Chapel, how divine
The art that reared thy costly shrine!
Thy carven columns must have grown …

Henry Van Dyke English
The Lily of Yorrow

Deep in the heart of the forest the lily of Yorrow is growing;
Blue is its cup as the sky, and with mystical odor o’erflowing;
Faintly it falls through the shadowy glades when the south wind is blowing; …

Henry Van Dyke English
Four Things

Four things a man must learn to do
If he would make his record true:
To think without confusion clearly; …

Henry Van Dyke English
The Fighting Race - C. Clarke

“read out the names!” and Burke sat back,
And Kelly drooped his head.
While Shea—they call him Scholar Jack— …

Joseph I English
Henry Ward Beecher

His tongue was touched with sacred fire,
He could not rest, he must speak out,
When Liberty lay stabbed, and doubt …

Charles Henry Phelps English