Love Poems – Page 2571

The Spring Beauties

The puritan Spring Beauties stood freshly clad for church;
A Thrush, white-breasted, o’er them sat singing on his perch.
“Happy be! for fair are ye!” the gentle singer told them, …

Helen Gray Cone English
Fair England

White england shouldering from the sea,
Green England in thy rainy veil,
Old island-nest of Liberty …

Helen Gray Cone English
The First Song

A poet writ a song of May
That checked his breath awhile;
He kept it for a summer day, …

Richard Burton English
On a Ferry Boat

The river widens to a pathless sea
Beneath the rain and mist and sullen skies.
Look out the window; ’t is a gray emprise, …

Richard Burton English
Black Sheep

From their folded mates they wander far,
Their ways seem harsh and wild:
They follow the beck of a baleful star, …

Richard Burton English
The Forefather

Here at the country inn,
I lie in my quiet bed,
And the ardent onrush of armies …

Richard Burton English
Extras

The crocuses in the Square
Lend a winsome touch to the May;
The clouds are vanished away, …

Richard Burton English
Love Is Strong

A viewless thing is the wind,
But its strength is mightier far
Than a phalanxed host in battle line, …

Richard Burton English
An Unpraised Picture

I saw a picture once by Angelo.
“Unfinished,” said the critic; “done in youth;”
And that was all, no thought of praise, forsooth! …

Richard Burton English
The Polar Quest

Unconquerably, men venture on the quest
And seek an ocean amplitude unsailed,
Cold, virgin, awful. Scorning ease and rest, …

Richard Burton English