Love Poems – Page 2562

Roses of Memory

A rose’s crimson stain,
A rose’s stainless white,
Fitly become the immortal slain …

Armistead Churchill Gordon English
A Girl of Pompeii

A public haunt they found her in:
She lay asleep, a lovely child;
The only thing left undefiled …

Edward Sanford Martin English
A Little Brother of the Rich

To put new shingles on old roofs;
To give old women wadded skirts;
To treat premonitory coughs …

Edward Sanford Martin English
Egotism

Without him still this whirling earth
Might spin its course around the sun,
And death still dog the heels of birth, …

Edward Sanford Martin English
Lydia

Break forth, break forth, O Sudbury town,
And bid your yards be gay
Up all your gusty streets and down, …

Lizette Woodworth Reese English
Telling the Bees

Bathsheba came out to the sun,
Out to our wallëd cherry-trees;
The tears adown her cheek did run, …

Lizette Woodworth Reese English
In Time of Grief

Dark, thinned, beside the wall of stone,
The box dripped in the air;
Its odor through my house was blown …

Lizette Woodworth Reese English
To a Town Poet

Snatch the departing mood;
Make yours its emptying reed, and pipe us still
Faith in the time, faith in our common blood, …

Lizette Woodworth Reese English
Trust

I am Thy grass, O Lord!
I grow up sweet and tall
But for a day, beneath Thy sword …

Lizette Woodworth Reese English
A Holiday

Along the pastoral ways I go,
To get the healing of the trees,
The ghostly news the hedges know; …

Lizette Woodworth Reese English