Love Poems – Page 2572

In Sleep

Not drowsihood and dreams and mere idless,
Nor yet the blessedness of strength regained,
Alone are in what men call sleep. The past, …

Richard Burton English
Robin's Secret

’t is the blithest, bonniest weather for a bird to flirt a feather,
For a bird to trill and warble, all his wee red breast a-swell.
I ’ve a secret. You may listen till your blue eyes dance and glisten, …

Katharine Lee Bates English
A Song of Riches

What will you give to a barefoot lass,
Morning with breath like wine?
Wade, bare feet! In my wide morass …

Katharine Lee Bates English
The Little Knight in Green

What fragrant-footed comer
Is stepping o’er my head?
Behold, my queen! the Summer! …

Katharine Lee Bates English
On a Cast from an Antique

Headless, without an arm, a figure leans
By something vaguely Greek,—a fount, an urn;
Dim stairs climb past her where one’s thoughts discern …

George Pellew English
The Tutelage

In the coiled shell sounds Ocean’s distant roar,
Oft to our listening hearts come heavenly strains;—
Men say, “That was the blood in our own veins, …

Robert Mowry Bell English
The Second Volume

In the groined alcoves of an ancient tower
Amid a wealth of treasured tomes I found
A little book, in choicest vellum bound: …

Robert Mowry Bell English
On a Greek Vase

Divinely shapen cup, thy lip
Unto me seemeth thus to speak:
“Behold in me the workmanship, …

Frank Dempster Sherman English
To a Rose

Go, rose, and in her golden hair
You shall forget the garden soon;
The sunshine is a captive there …

Frank Dempster Sherman English
On Some Buttercups

A little way below her chin,
Caught in her bosom’s snowy hem,
Some buttercups are fastened in,— …

Frank Dempster Sherman English