Love Poems – Page 2585

If Spirits Walk

If spirits walk, love, when the night climbs slow
The slant footpath where we were wont to go,
Be sure that I shall take the selfsame way …

Sophie Jewett English
Armistice

The water sings along our keel,
The wind falls to a whispering breath;
I look into your eyes and feel …

Sophie Jewett English
When Nature Hath Betrayed the Heart That Loved Her

The gray waves rock against the gray skyline,
And break complaining on the long gray sand,
Here where I sit, who cannot understand …

Sophie Jewett English
A Smiling Demon of Notre Dame

Quiet as are the quiet skies
He watches where the city lies
Floating in vision clear or dim …

Sophie Jewett English
Budding-Time Too Brief

O little buds, break not so fast!
The spring’s but new.
The skies will yet be brighter blue, …

Evaleen Stein English
In Mexico

The cactus towers, straight and tall,
Through fallow fields of chapparal;
And here and there, in paths apart, …

Evaleen Stein English
In Youth

Not lips of mine have ever said:
“Would God that I were dead!”
Nay, cruel griefs! ye cannot break …

Evaleen Stein English
Flood-Time on the Marshes

Dear marshes, by no hand of man
Laboriously sown,
My river clasps you in its arms …

Evaleen Stein English
The Fire i' the Flint

The sudden thrust of speech is no mean test
Of man or woman. Caesar, with his cry
Of anguish,—Pilate, putting justice by,— …

Lucy Robinson English
Hic Me, Pater Optime, Fessam Deseris

Ere yet in Vergil I could scan or spell,
Or through the enchanted portal of that lay
Dear to old Rome had found my faltering way, …

Lucy Robinson English