Love Poems – Page 2586

A Ballade of Islands

I would I had been island-born.
I dearly love things insular:
The coral bed, the quaint bazaar, …

Lucy Robinson English
A Belated Violet

Very dark the autumn sky,
Dark the clouds that hurried by;
Very rough the autumn breeze …

Oliver Herford English
Why Ye Blossome Cometh before Ye Leafe

Once hoary Winter chanced—alas!
Alas! hys waye mistaking—
A leafless apple-tree to pass …

Oliver Herford English
The Elf and the Dormouse

Under a toadstool
Crept a wee Elf,
Out of the rain, …

Oliver Herford English
The Mon-Goos

This, children, is the famed Mon-goos.
He has an ap-pe-tite ab-struse:
Strange to re-late, this crea-ture takes …

Oliver Herford English
A Mood

It is good to strive against wind and rain
In the keen, sweet weather that autumn brings.
The wild horse shakes not the drops from his mane, …

Amelie Troubetzkoy English
Before the Rain

The blackcaps pipe among the reeds,
And there ’ll be rain to follow;
There is a murmur as of wind …

Amelie Troubetzkoy English
A Sonnet

Take all of me,—I am thine own, heart, soul,
Brain, body,—all; all that I am or dream
Is thine forever; yea, though space should teem …

Amelie Troubetzkoy English
Mrs - Golightly by Gertrude Hall

The time is come to speak, I think:
For on the square I met
My beauteous widow, fresh and pink, …

English
Angels

How shall we tell an angel
From another guest?
How, from the common worldly herd, …

Gertrude Hall English