Love Poems – Page 2567

Song and Science

Spirit of song, whose shining wings have borne
Our souls of old to many a clear blue height,
Comes there the day that leaves our world forlorn …

Milicent Washburn Shinn English
When Almonds Bloom

When almond buds unclose,
Soft white and tender rose,—
A swarm of white moth things, …

Milicent Washburn Shinn English
Yosemite

Soul of a tree ungrown, new life out of God’s life proceeding,
Folded close in the seed, waking—O wonder of wonders—
Waking with power as a spirit to clothe thee in leaves and in branches, …

Milicent Washburn Shinn English
Tacita

She roves through shadowy solitudes,
Where scentless herbs and fragile flowers
Pine in the gloom that ever broods …

James Benjamin Kenyon English
Death and Night

The bearded grass waves in the summer breeze;
The sunlight sleeps along the distant hills;
Faint is the music of the murmuring rills, …

James Benjamin Kenyon English
Bring Them Not Back

Yet, o my friend—pale conjurer, I call
Thee friend—bring, bring the dead not back again,
Since for the tears, the darkness and the pain …

James Benjamin Kenyon English
Come Slowly, Paradise

O dawn upon me slowly, Paradise!
Come not too suddenly,
Lest my just-opened, unaccustomed eyes …

James Benjamin Kenyon English
The Human Plan

Child, weary of thy baubles of to-day—
Child with the golden or the silver hair—
Say, how wouldst thou have built creation’s stair, …

Charles Henry Crandall English
With Lilacs

I beg the pardon of these flowers
For bringing them to one whose hair
Alone doth shame, beyond compare, …

Charles Henry Crandall English
The Four Winds

Wind of the North,
Wind of the Norland snows,
Wind of the winnowed skies, and sharp, clear stars,— …

Charles Henry Luders English