Love Poems – Page 2584

Symbols

Green grew the reeds and pale they were,
And all the sunless grass was gray;
The sluggish coils of marsh-water …

Vance Thompson English
Linen Bands

I weep those dead lips, white and dry,
On which no kisses lie,
Those eyes deserted of desire, …

Vance Thompson English
Beggars

Child with the hungry eyes,
The pallid mouth and brow,
And the lifted, asking hands, …

Ella Higginson English
Moonrise in the Rockies

The trembling train clings to the leaning wall
Of solid stone; a thousand feet below
Sinks a black gulf; the sky hangs like a pall …

Ella Higginson English
The Lamp in the West

Venus has lit her silver lamp
Low in the purple West,
Casting a soft and mellow light …

Ella Higginson English
The Grand Ronde Valley

Ah me! I know how like a golden flower
The Grand Ronde valley lies this August night,
Locked in by dimpled hills where purple light …

Ella Higginson English
Four-Leaf Clover

I know a place where the sun is like gold,
And the cherry blooms burst with snow,
And down underneath is the loveliest nook, …

Ella Higginson English
To a Whithered Rose

Thy span of life was all too short—
A week or two at best—
From budding-time, through blossoming, …

John Kendrick Bangs English
May 30, 1893

It seemed to be but chance, yet who shall say
That ’t was not part of Nature ’s own sweet way,
That on the field where once the cannon’s breath …

John Kendrick Bangs English
The Little Elf

I met a little Elf-man, once,
Down where the lilies blow.
I asked him why he was so small …

John Kendrick Bangs English