Love Poems – Page 2576

Memnon

Why dost thou hail with songful lips no more
The glorious sunrise?—Why is Memnon mute,
Whose voice was tuned as is the silvery flute …

Clinton Scollard English
Be ye in Love with April-tide

Be ye in love with April-tide?
I’ faith, in love am I!
For now ’t is sun, and now ’t is shower, …

Clinton Scollard English
A Bell

Had i the power
To cast a bell that should from some grand tower,
At the first Christmas hour, …

Clinton Scollard English
From the "Commemoration Ode"

Washington
when dreaming kings, at odds with swift paced time,
Would strike that banner down, …

Harriet Monroe English
In the Beginning

When sunshine met the wave,
Then love was born;
Then Venus rose to save …

Harriet Monroe English
The Fortunate One

Beside her ashen hearth she sate her down,
Whence he she loved had fled,—
His children plucking at her sombre gown …

Harriet Monroe English
The Night-Blooming Cereus

flower of the moon!
Still white is her brow whom we worshiped on earth long ago;
Yea, purer than pearls in deep seas, and more virgin than snow. …

Harriet Monroe English
A Common Inference

A night: mysterious, tender, quiet, deep;
Heavy with flowers; full of life asleep;
Thrilling with insect voices; thick with stars; …

Charlotte Perkins Stetson English
The Beds of Fleur-de-Lys

High-lying, sea-blown stretches of green turf,
Wind-bitten close, salt-colored by the sea,
Low curve on curve spread far to the cool sky, …

Charlotte Perkins Stetson English
A Conservative

The garden beds I wandered by
One bright and cheerful morn,
When I found a new-fledged butterfly, …

Charlotte Perkins Stetson English