Love Poems – Page 2589

"Whom the Gods Love" - De Wolfe Howe

“whom the gods love die young;”—if gods ye be,
Then generously might ye have spared to us
One from your vast unnumbered overplus, …

Mark A English
The Rain-Crow

Can freckled Auguest,—drowsing warm and blonde
Beside a wheat-shock in the white-topped mead,
In her hot hair the oxeyed daisies wound,— …

Madison Cawein English
To a Wind-Flower

Teach me the secret of thy loveliness,
That, being made wise, I may aspire to be
As beautiful in thought, and so express …

Madison Cawein English
The Soul

An heritage of hopes and fears
And dreams and memory,
And vices of ten thousand years …

Madison Cawein English
The Creek-Road

Calling, the heron flies athwart the blue
That sleeps above it; reach on rocky reach
Of water sings by sycamore and beech, …

Madison Cawein English
Ku Klux

We have sent him seeds of the melon’s core,
And nailed a warning upon his door;
By the Ku Klux laws we can do no more. …

Madison Cawein English
Comradery

With eyes hand-arched he looks into
The morning’s face, then turns away
With schoolboy feet, all wet with dew, …

Madison Cawein English
Flight

The song-birds? are they flown away?
The song-birds of the summer-time,
That sang their souls into the day, …

Madison Cawein English
Songs from "Master Sky-Lark"

The sky-lark’s SONG
HEY, laddie, hark, to the merry, merry lark;
How high he singeth clear: …

John Bennett English
God Bless You, Dear, Today!

If there be graveyards in the heart
From which no roses spring,
A place of wrecks and old gray tombs …

John Bennett English