Love Poems – Page 2566

The Clover

O ruddy Lover—
O brave red Clover!
Didst think to win her …

Margaret Deland English
Love's Wisdom

How long I ’ve loved thee, and how well—
I dare not tell!
Because, if thou shouldst once divine …

Margaret Deland English
Small and Early

When dorothy and I took tea, we sat upon the floor;
No matter how much tea I drank, she always gave me more;
Our table was the scarlet box in which her tea-set came; …

Tudor Jenks English
The Spirit of the Maine

In battle-line of sombre gray
Our ships-of-war advance,
As Red Cross Knights in holy fray …

Tudor Jenks English
Candlemas

o hearken, all ye little weeds
That lie beneath the snow,
(So low, dear hearts, in poverty so low!) …

Alice Brown English
Trilby

O living image of eternal youth!
Wrought with such large simplicity of truth
That, now the pattern’s made and on the shelf, …

Alice Brown English
Incipit Vita Nova

What time the earth takes on the garb of Spring,
And new-born joy runs riot in the blood,
When the year’s tide turns refluent to its flood, …

William Morton Payne English
Ej Blot Til Lyst

Not merely for our pleasure, but to purge
The soul from baseness, from ignoble fear,
And all the passions that make dim the clear …

William Morton Payne English
Tannhauser

Sin-satiate, and haggard with despair,
Freed from the unholy mountain’s baleful spell,
Forth coming from the very pit of Hell, …

William Morton Payne English
Lohengrin

Strain, strain thine eyes, this parting is for aye!
Grief have her will of thee! Thy faith confessed
To his unequal, he must go, the quest …

William Morton Payne English