Love Poems – Page 2550

A Bulb

Misshapen, black, unlovely to the sight,
O mute companion of the murky mole,
You must feel overjoyed to have a white, …

Richard Kendall Munkittrick English
To Miguel de Cervantes Saavadra

A bluebird lives in yonder tree,
Likewise a little chickadee,
In two woodpeckers’ nests—rent free! …

Richard Kendall Munkittrick English
The Hollyhocks

Some space beyond the garden close
I sauntered down the shadowed lawn;
It was the hour when sluggards doze, …

Craven Langstroth Betts English
Don Quixote

Gaunt, rueful knight, on raw-boned, shambling hack,
Thy battered morion, shield and rusty spear,
Jog ever down the road in strange career, …

Craven Langstroth Betts English
To the Moonflower

Pale, climbing disk, who dost lone vigil keep
When all the flower-heads droop in drowsy swoon;
When lily bells fold to the zephyr’s tune, …

Craven Langstroth Betts English
Moth-Song

what dost thou here,
Thou dusky courtier,
Within the pinky palace of the rose? …

Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz English
Her Picture

Autumn was cold in Plymouth town;
The wind ran round the shore,
Now softly passing up and down, …

Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz English
On Kingston Bridge

On kingston Bridge the starlight shone
Through hurrying mists in shrouded glow;
The boding night-wind made its moan, …

Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz English
So Wags the World

Memory cannot linger long,
Joy must die the death.
Hope’s like a little silver song …

Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz English
Praise-God Barebones

I and my cousin Wildair met
And tossed a pot together;—
Burnt sack it was that Molly brewed, …

Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz English