Love Poems – Page 2553

Longfellow

The winds have talked with him confidingly;
The trees have whispered to him; and the night
Hath held him gently as a mother might, …

James Whitcomb Riley English
Love's Prayer

Dear lord! kind Lord!
Gracious Lord! I pray
Thou wilt look on all I love, …

James Whitcomb Riley English
The Garden Where There Is No Winter

“se dio ti lasci, lettor, prender frutto
Di tua lezione.”

Louis James Block English
Tuberose

Flower, that I hold in my hand,
Waxen and white and unwoful,
Perfect with your race’s lovely perfection, …

Louis James Block English
Fate

Three steps and I reach the door,
But a whole month rolls between
Since last I stood before …

Louis James Block English
Work

Ah, blessedness of work! the aimless mind,
Left to pursue at will its fancies wild,
Returns at length, like some play-wearied child, …

Louis James Block English
To Demeter

Thou ever young! Persephone but gazes
Upon thy face, and shows thee back thine own;
And every flock that on thy hillsides grazes, …

Maybury Fleming English
What Though the Green Leaf Grow?

What though the green leaf grow?
’T will last a month and day;
In all sweet flowers that blow …

Maybury Fleming English
Song, Youth, and Sorrow

Lofty against our Western dawn uprises Achilles:
He among heroes alone singeth or toucheth the lyre.
Few, and dimmed by grief, are the days that to him are appointed! …

William Cranston Lawton English
My Fatherland

The imperial boy had fallen in his pride
Before the gates of golden Babylon.
The host, who deemed that priceless treasure won, …

William Cranston Lawton English