Love Poems – Page 2564

Recrimination

I
said life to Death: “Methinks, if I were you,
I would not carry such an awesome face …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox English
To an Obscure Poet Who Lives on My Hearth

Why shouldst thou cease thy plaintive song
When I draw near?
Has mankind done thee any wrong, …

Charles Lotin Hildreth English
Implora Pace

I stood within the cypress gloom
Where old Ferrara’s dead are laid,
And mused on many a sculptured tomb, …

Charles Lotin Hildreth English
At the Mermaid Inn

At table yonder sits the man we seek,
Beside the ingle, where the crimson flare
Reveals him through the eddying tavern reek, …

Charles Lotin Hildreth English
Destiny

Our many years are made of clay and cloud,
And quick desire is but as morning dew;
And love and life, that linger and are proud, …

Harrison Smith Morris English
The Lonely-Bird

O dappled throat of white! Shy, hidden bird!
Perched in green dimness of the dewy wood,
And murmuring, in that lonely, lover mood, …

Harrison Smith Morris English
A Pine-Tree Buoy

Where all the winds were tranquil,
And all the odors sweet,
And rings of tumbling upland …

Harrison Smith Morris English
Mohammed and Seid

Swept by the hot wind, stark, untrackable,
The stony desert stretches to the sky.
Deep-printed shadows at the tent-door lie, …

Harrison Smith Morris English
Fickle Hope

Hope, is this thy hand
Lies warm as life in mine?
Is this thy sign …

Harrison Smith Morris English
Choir Practice

As i sit on a log here in the woods among the clean-faced beeches,
The trunks of the trees seem to me like the pipes of a mighty organ,
Thrilling my soul with wave on wave of the harmonies of the universal anthem— …

Ernest Crosby English