Love Poems – Page 2573

The Library

Give me the room whose every nook
Is dedicated to a book:
Two windows will suffice for air …

Frank Dempster Sherman English
The Rose's Cup

Down in a garden olden,—
Just where, I do not know,—
A buttercup all golden …

Frank Dempster Sherman English
The Shadows

All up and down in shadow-town
The shadow children go;
In every street you ’re sure to meet …

Frank Dempster Sherman English
At Midnight

See, yonder, the belfry tower
That gleams in the moon’s pale light;
Or is it a ghostly flower …

Frank Dempster Sherman English
George Washington

This was the man God gave us when the hour
Proclaimed the dawn of Liberty begun;
Who dared a deed, and died when it was done …

John Hall Ingham English
A Summer Sanctuary

I found a yellow flower in the grass,
A tiny flower with petals like a bell,
And yet, methought, more than a flower it was,— …

John Hall Ingham English
Sea and Shore

Our mother, loved of all thy sons
So dear, they die, not dying for thee;
Yet are thy fondest, tenderest ones …

Harry Lyman Koopman English
John Brown

The sea-bound landsman, looking back to shore,
Now learns what land is highest:—not the ring
Of hills that erewhile shut out everything …

Harry Lyman Koopman English
The Satirist

Not mine to draw the cloth-yard shaft
From straining palm to thrilling ear;
Then launch it through the monster’s hulk, …

Harry Lyman Koopman English
Revealed

Now, on a sudden, I know it, the secret, the secret of life.
Why, the very green of the grass in the fields with betrayal is rife!
The whirr of the grasshopper by the wayside proclaims it to all; …

Harry Lyman Koopman English