Love Poems – Page 2551

Pamela in Town

the fair Pamela came to town,
To London town, in early summer;
And up and down and round about …

Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz English
April Fantasie

The fresh, bright bloom of the daffodils
Makes gold in the garden bed,
Gold that is like the sunbeams …

Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz English
Quaker Ladies

More shy than the shy violet,
Hiding when the wind doth pass,
Nestled in the nodding grass, …

Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz English
The Bride's Toilette

“dame, how the moments go—
And the bride is not ready!
Call all her tiring maids, …

Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz English
A Cry from the Shore

Come down, ye graybeard mariners,
Unto the wasting shore!
The morning winds are up,—the gods …

Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz English
Sea-Way

The tide slips up the silver sand,
Dark night and rosy day;
It brings sea-treasures to the land, …

Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz English
Harvest

Sweet, sweet, sweet,
Is the wind’s song,
Astir in the rippled wheat …

Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz English
Uncle Gabe's White Folks

Sarvent, marster! Yes, sah, dat ’s me—
Ole Unc’ Gabe ’s my name;
I thankee, Marster, I ’m ’bout, yo’ see. …

Thomas Nelson Page English
Ashcake

Well, yes, sir, dat am a comical name—
It are so, for a fac’—
But I knowed one, down in Ferginyer, …

Thomas Nelson Page English
When She Comes Home

When she comes home again! A thousand ways
I fashion, to myself, the tenderness
Of my glad welcome: I shall tremble—yes; …

James Whitcomb Riley English