Love Poems – Page 2556

The Egyptian Lotus

Proud, languid lily of the sacred Nile,
’T is strange to see thee on our Western wave,
Far from those sandy shores, that mile on mile, …

Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton English
Little Wild Baby

Through the fierce fever I nursed him, and then he said
I was the woman—I!—that he would wed;
He sent a boat with men for his own white priest, …

Margaret Thomson Janvier English
Viverols

Beyond the sea, I know not where,
There is a town called Vivérols;
I know not if ’t is near or far, …

David Starr Jordan English
He 'd Nothing but His Violin

He ’d nothing but his violin,
I ’d nothing but my song,
But we were wed when skies were blue …

Mary Kyle Dallas English
What My Lover Said

By the merest chance, in the twilight gloom,
In the orchard path he met me;
In the tall, wet grass, with its faint perfume, …

Homer Greene English
Unless

O touch me not, unless thy soul
Can claim my soul as thine;
Give me no earthly flowers that fade, …

Ella Dietz Glynes English
Winter Twilight

Soft-sandalled twilight, handmaid of the night,
Before her noble lady’s radiant face
Doth slowly come, with gentle, quiet pace, …

George Tracy Elliot English
Under the Red Cross

She came and went as comes and goes
A fragrance in the morning air,
Where lay the shadowy shapes of those …

Chauncey Hickox English
A Child's Question

“what is it to be dead?” O Life,
Close-held within my own,
What foul breath in the air is rife? …

Emma Huntington Nason English
Thomas a Kempis

Turn with me from the city’s clamorous street,
Where throng and push passions and lusts and hate,
And enter, through this age-browned, ivied gate, …

Richard Rogers Bowker English