Love Poems – Page 2580

• When Even Cometh On

  The mother-heart doth yearn at eventide,
  And, wheresoe’er the straying ones may roam,
  When even cometh on they all fare home. …

  Lucy Evangeline Tilley English

• The Statue of Lorenzo de' Medici

  Mark me how still I am!—The sound of feet
  Unnumbered echoing through this vaulted hall,
  Or voices harsh, on me unheeded fall, …

  James Ernest Nesmith English

• Ahmed

  With wrath-flushed cheeks, and eyelids red
  Where anger’s fiercest sign was spread,
  And hands whose clenched nails left their print …

  James Berry Bensel English

• Ave! Nero Imperator

  What! roses on thy tomb! and was there then
  One who could sorrow o’er thy wretched fate?
  One heart that echoed not the cry of men,— …

  Duffield Osborne English

• A Night in Lesbos

  The moon has left the sky,
  The Pleiades are flown,
  Midnight is creeping nigh, …

  George Hortom English

• Bacchylides

  Fair star, new-risen to our wondering eyes
  With brighter glory from thy long eclipse!
  Poet, imprisoned in dead centuries! …

  George Meason Whicher English

• Carlyle and Emerson

  A bale-fire kindled in the night,
  By night a blaze, by day a cloud,
  With flame and smoke all England woke,— …

  Montgomery Schuyler English

• The Town of Hay

  The town of Hay is far away,
  The town of Hay is far;
  Between its hills of green and gray …

  Sam Walter Foss English

• A Drop of Ink

  This drop of ink chance leaves upon my pen,
  What might it write in Milton’s mighty hand!
  What might it speak at Shakespeare’s high command! …

  Joseph Ernest Whitney English

• Sea Irony

  One day I saw a ship upon the sands
  Careened upon beam ends, her tilted deck
  Swept clear of rubbish of her long-past wreck; …

  John Langdon Heaton English

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