Love Poems – Page 2555

Frost

How small a tooth hath mined the season’s heart!
How cold a touch hath set the wood on fire,
Until it blazes like a costly pyre …

Edith Matilda Thomas English
A Far Cry to Heaven

What! dost thou pray that the outgone tide be rolled back on the strand,
The flame be rekindled that mounted away from the smouldering brand,
The past-summer harvest flow golden through stubble-lands snaked and sere, …

Edith Matilda Thomas English
The Mother Who Died Too

She was so little—little in her grave,
The wide earth all around so hard and cold—
She was so little! therefore did I crave …

Edith Matilda Thomas English
Winter Sleep

I know it must be winter (though I sleep)—
I know it must be winter, for I dream
I dip my bare feet in the running stream, …

Edith Matilda Thomas English
From "The Inverted Torch"

When in THE FIRST GREAT HOUR
WHEN in the first great hour of sleep supreme
I saw my Dearest fair and tranquil lie, …

Edith Matilda Thomas English
Sassafras

Fringing cypress forests dim
Where the owl makes weird abode,
Bending down with spicy limb …

Samuel Minturn Peck English
A Southern Girl

Her dimpled cheeks are pale;
She ’s a lily of the vale,
Not a rose. …

Samuel Minturn Peck English
The Captain's Feather

The dew is on the heather,
The moon is in the sky,
And the captain’s waving feather …

Samuel Minturn Peck English
My Little Girl

My little girl is nested
Within her tiny bed,
With amber ringlets crested …

Samuel Minturn Peck English
Pray for the Dead

Pray for the dead—who bids thee not?
Do all our human loves grow pale,
Or are the old needs all forgot …

Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton English