Love Poems – Page 2568

The Haunts of the Halcyon

To stand within a gently gliding boat,
Urged by a noiseless paddle at the stern,
Whipping the crystal mirror of the fern …

Charles Henry Luders English
Heart of Oak

Lean close and set thine ear against the bark;
Then tell me what faint, murmurous sounds are heard:
Hath not the oak stored up the song of bird, …

Charles Henry Luders English
An Old Thought

Framed in the cavernous fire-place sits a boy,
Watching the embers from his grandsire’s knee:
One sees red castles rise, and laughs with joy; …

Charles Henry Luders English
The Mountebanks

Over our heads the branches made
A canopy of woven shade.
The birds about this beechen tent …

Charles Henry Luders English
My Little Neighbor

My little neighbor’s table ’s set,
And slyly he comes down the tree,
His feet firm in each tiny fret …

Mary Augusta Mason English
Over Their Graves

Over their graves rang once the bugle’s call,
The searching shrapnel and the crashing ball;
The shriek, the shock of battle, and the neigh …

Henry Jerome Stockard English
As Some Mysterious Wanderer of the Skies

As some mysterious wanderer of the skies,
Emerging from the deeps of outer dark,
Traces for once in human ken the arc …

Henry Jerome Stockard English
The Lamp

Hast thou a lamp, a little lamp,
Put in that hand of thine?
And did He say, who gave it thee, …

Sarah Pratt McLean Greene English
De Sheepfol'

De massa ob de sheepfol’,
Dat guards de sheepfol’ bin,
Look out in de gloomerin’ meadows, …

Sarah Pratt McLean Greene English
As I Came Down Mount Tamalpais

As i came down Mount Tamalpais,
To north the fair Sonoma Hills
Lay like a trembling thread of blue …

Clarence Urmy English