Love Poems – Page 2563

Keats

An english lad, who, reading in a book,
A ponderous, leathern thing set on his knee,
Saw the broad violet of the Egean Sea …

Lizette Woodworth Reese English
Reserve

Keep back the one word more,
Nor give of your whole store;
For, it may be, in Art’s sole hour of need, …

Lizette Woodworth Reese English
The Southern Snow-Bird

I see a tiny fluttering form
Beneath the soft snow’s soundless storm,
’Mid a strange noonlight palely shed …

William Hamilton Hayne English
To a Cherokee Rose

Thy one white leaf is open to the sky,
And o’er thy heart swift lights and shadows pass,—
The wooing winds seem loath to wander by, …

William Hamilton Hayne English
A Cyclone at Sea

A throat of thunder, a tameless heart,
And a passion malign and free,
He is no sheik of the desert sand. …

William Hamilton Hayne English
Sleep and His Brother Death

Just ere the darkness is withdrawn,
In seasons of cold or heat,
Close to the boundary line of Dawn …

William Hamilton Hayne English
The Yule Log

Out of the mighty Yule log came
The crooning of the lithe wood-flame,—
A single bar of music fraught …

William Hamilton Hayne English
To a Child

I look upon thy happy face—
Dear child with those undarkened eyes
Like glimpses of transparent skies— …

George Edgar Montgomery English
A Dead Soldier

He sleeps at last—a hero of his race.
Dead!—and the night lies softly on his face,
While the faint summer stars, like sentinels, …

George Edgar Montgomery English
At Night

The sun is sinking over hill and sea,
Its red light fires a spectral line of shore;
Night droops upon our half-world mistily …

George Edgar Montgomery English