Love Poems – Page 2582

Go Sleep, Ma Honey - Barker

Whipp’will ’s singin’ to de moon,—
Go sleep, ma honey, m—m.
He sing a pow’ful mo’nful tune, …

Edward D English
Kentucky Babe

’skeeters am a hummin’ on de honeysuckle vine,—
Sleep, Kentucky Babe!
Sandman am a comin’ to dis little coon of mine,— …

Richard Henry Buck English
A Little Dutch Garden

I passed by a garden, a little Dutch garden,
Where useful and pretty things grew,—
Heart’s-ease and tomatoes, and pinks and potatoes, …

Hattie Whitney English
The Old Sexton

Nigh to a grave that was newly made,
Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade;
His work was done, and he paused to wait …

Park Benjamin English
He Came Too Late

He came too late!—Neglect had tried
Her constancy too long;
Her love had yielded to her pride, …

Elizabeth Bogart English
The Succession

as one by one the singers of our land,
Summoned away by Death’s unfailing dart,
Unto the greater mystery depart, …

Frances Laughton Mace English
From "To a Writer of the Day"

Technique
could but this be brought
Into your ken,—that the technique is thought! …

Langdon Elwyn Mitchell English
To One Being Old

Her aged hands are worn with works of love;
Dear aged hands that oft on me are laid;
Her heart’s below, but, oh, her love’s above, …

Langdon Elwyn Mitchell English
The Wayside Virgin

I am the Virgin; from this granite ledge
A hundred weary winters have I watched
The lonely road that wanders at my feet; …

Langdon Elwyn Mitchell English
Written at the End of a Book

This is the end of the book
Written by God.
I am the earth he took, …

Langdon Elwyn Mitchell English