Love Poems – Page 2570

The Dead Moon

we are ghost-ridden:
Through the deep night
Wanders a spirit, …

Danske Dandridge English
The Spirit of the Fall

Come, on thy swaying feet,
Wild Spirit of the Fall!
With wind-blown skirts, loose hair of russet-brown, …

Danske Dandridge English
The Last Hunt

Oh, it ’s twenty gallant gentlemen
Rode out to hunt the deer,
With mirth upon the silver horn …

William Roscoe Thayer English
Man in Nature

Climbing up the hillside beneath the summer stars
I listen to the murmur of the drowsy ebbing sea;
The newly-risen moon has loosed her silver zone …

William Roscoe Thayer English
The Violin's Complaint

Honest stradivari made men:
With the gift of love he blest me;
Once, delight, a master played me, …

William Roscoe Thayer English
The Ride to the Lady

“now since mine even is come at last,—
For I have been the sport of steel,
And hot life ebbeth from me fast, …

Helen Gray Cone English
Arraignment

“not ye who have stoned, not ye who have smitten us,” cry
The sad, great souls, as they go out hence into dark,—
“Not ye we accuse, though for you was our passion borne; …

Helen Gray Cone English
Thisbe

The garden within was shaded,
And guarded about from sight;
The fragrance flowed to the south wind, …

Helen Gray Cone English
The Contrast

He loved her, having felt his love begin
With that first look,—as lover oft avers.
He made pale flowers his pleading ministers, …

Helen Gray Cone English
The Last Cup of Canary

So, the powder ’s low, and the larder ’s clean,
And surrender drapes, with its blacks impending,
All the stage for a sorry and sullen scene: …

Helen Gray Cone English