Love Poems – Page 2587

The Dust

It settles softly on your things,
Impalpable, fine, light, dull, gray:
Her dingy dust-clout Betty brings, …

Gertrude Hall English
My Old Counselor

The sun looked from his everlasting skies,
He laughed into my daily-dying eyes;
He said to me, the brutal shining Sun: …

Gertrude Hall English
A Countrywoman of Mine

Handsome? i hardly know. Her profile ’s fine—
Delightful, intellectual, aquiline.
Her keen eyes light it; keen, yet often kind; …

Elaine Goodale Eastman English
Ashes of Roses

Soft on the sunset sky
Bright daylight closes,
Leaving, when light doth die, …

Elaine Goodale Eastman English
Baby

Dimpled and flushed and dewy pink he lies,
Crumpled and tossed and lapt in snowy bands;
Aimlessly reaching with his tiny hands, …

Elaine Goodale Eastman English
Forthfaring

I tripped along a narrow way,
Plucking the same flowers, day by day;
The sun which round about me lay …

Winifred Howells English
The Poet and the Child

“and you, Sir Poet, shall you make, I pray,
This child a poet with that insight rare
They tell me poets have, that everywhere …

Winifred Howells English
A Wasted Sympathy

Do not waste your pity, friend,
When you see me weep as now;
Keep it to some better end. …

Winifred Howells English
Past

There, as she sewed, came floating through her head
Odd bits of poems, learned in other days
And long forgotten in the noisier ways …

Winifred Howells English
The Wander-Lovers

Down the world with Marna!
That ’s the life for me!
Wandering with the wandering wind, …

Richard Hovey English