Love Poems – Page 2549

Rare Moments

Each of us is like Balboa: once in all our lives do we,
Gazing from some tropic summit, look upon an unknown sea;
But upon the dreary morrow, every way our footsteps seek, …

Charles Henry Phelps English
Yuma

Weary, weary, desolate,
Sand-swept, parched, and cursed of fate;
Burning, but how passionless! …

Charles Henry Phelps English
From "The Voice of Webster"

Silence was envious of the only voice
That mightier seemed than she. So, cloaked as Death,
With potion borrowed from Oblivion, …

Robert Underwood Johnson English
As a Bell in a Chime

as a bell in a chime
Sets its twin-note a-ringing,
As one poet’s rhyme …

Robert Underwood Johnson English
The Wistful Days

What is there wanting in the Spring?
The air is soft as yesteryear;
The happy-nested green is here, …

Robert Underwood Johnson English
In Tesla's Laboratory

Here in the dark what ghostly figures press!—
No phantom of the Past, or grim or sad;
No wailing spirit of woe; no spectre, clad …

Robert Underwood Johnson English
Browning at Asolo

This is the loggia Browning loved,
High on the flank of the friendly town;
These are the hills that his keen eye roved, …

Robert Underwood Johnson English
The Blossom of the Soul

Thou half-unfolded flower
With fragrance-laden heart,
What is the secret power …

Robert Underwood Johnson English
At the Shrine

A pale Italian peasant,
Beside the dusty way,
Upon this morning pleasant …

Richard Kendall Munkittrick English
Ghosts

Out in the misty moonlight
The first snowflakes I see,
As they frolic among the leafless …

Richard Kendall Munkittrick English