Love Poems – Page 2559

From "Wild Eden"

When first I SAW HER
WHEN first I saw her, at the stroke
The heart of nature in me spoke; …

George Edward Woodberry English
From "My Country"

O destined Land, unto thy citadel,
What founding fates even now doth peace compel,
That through the world thy name is sweet to tell! …

George Edward Woodberry English
On a Portrait of Columbus

Was this his face, and these the finding eyes
That plucked a new world from the rolling seas?
Who, serving Christ, whom most he sought to please, …

George Edward Woodberry English
America to England

Mother of nations, of them eldest we,
Well is it found, and happy for the state,
When that which makes men proud first makest them great, …

George Edward Woodberry English
At Gibraltar

I
england, i stand on thy imperial ground,
Not all a stranger; as thy bugles blow, …

George Edward Woodberry English
Love's Rosary

Sweet names, the rosary of my evening prayer,
Told on my lips like kisses of good-night
To friends who go a little from my sight, …

George Edward Woodberry English
Song of Eros, in "Agathon"

When love in the faint heart trembles,
And the eyes with tears are wet,
Oh, tell me what resembles …

George Edward Woodberry English
John Bright

I
few men of hero-mould
The Quaker counts amid his ranks to-day; …

Francis Barton Gummere English
The Way to Arcady

Oh, what ’s the way to Arcady,
To Arcady, to Arcady;
Oh, what ’s the way to Arcady, …

Henry Cuyler Bunner English
She Was a Beauty

She was a beauty in the days
When Madison was President,
And quite coquettish in her ways,— …

Henry Cuyler Bunner English