Love Poems – Page 2558

A Little Boy's Vain Regret

He was six years old, just six that day,
And I saw he had something important to say
As he held in his hand a broken toy. …

Edith Matilda Thomas English
A Mortifying Mistake - Pratt

I studied my tables over and over, and backward and forward, too;
But I could n’t remember six times nine, and I did n’t know what to do,
Till sister told me to play with my doll, and not to bother my head. …

Anna M English
Early News - Pratt

The sparrow told it to the robin,
The robin told it to the wren,
Who passed it on, with sweet remark, …

Anna M English
A Million Little Diamonds

A million little diamonds
Twinkled on the trees;
And all the little maidens said: …

Mary Frances Butts English
Only One

Hundreds of stars in the pretty sky;
Hundreds of shells on the shore together;
Hundreds of birds that go singing by; …

George Cooper English
Written in the Visitors' Book at the Birthplace of Robert Burns

Of heavenly stature, but most human smile,
Gyved with our faults he stands,
Truth’s white and Love’s red roses tendering us, …

George Washington Cable English
The New Arrival

There came to port last Sunday night
The queerest little craft,
Without an inch of rigging on; …

George Washington Cable English
Thoughts on the Commandments

“love your neighbor as yourself,”—
So the parson preaches:
That ’s one half the Decalogue,— …

George Augustus Baker English
An American Girl

She ’s had a Vassar education,
And points with pride to her degrees;
She ’s studied household decoration; …

Brander Matthews English
To Jessie's Dancing Feet

How, as a spider’s web is spun
With subtle grace and art,
Do thy light footsteps, every one, …

William De Lancey Ellwanger English