Love Poems – Page 2590

Her Answer

To-day, dear heart, but just to-day,
The sunshine over all,
The roses crimsoning the air …

John Bennett English
The Last Bowstrings

They had brought in such sheafs of hair,
And flung them all about us there
In the loud noonday’s heat and glare: …

Edward Lucas White English
Genius

He cried aloud to God: “The men below
Are happy, for I see them come and go,
Parents and mates and friends, paired, clothed with love; …

Edward Lucas White English
Reality

These are my scales to weigh reality,—
A dream, a chord, a longing, love of Thee.
Real as the violets of April days, …

Martha Gilbert Dickinson English
A Priest's Prayer

Over the dim confessional cried
Father Amatus,—cloistered young,—
Dropping his rosary by his side, …

Martha Gilbert Dickinson English
Forgiveness Lane

Forgiveness lane is old as youth,
You cannot miss your way;
’T is hedged with flowering thorn forsooth …

Martha Gilbert Dickinson English
Unanswered

I wanted you when skies were red,
And now the sky is gray;
I thought of you when shadows fled— …

Martha Gilbert Dickinson English
Her Music

It trembled off the keys,—a parting kiss
So sweet,—the angel slept upon his sword
As through the gate of Paradise we swept,— …

Martha Gilbert Dickinson English
Heaven

only to find Forever, blest
By thine encircling arm;
Only to lie beyond unrest …

Martha Gilbert Dickinson English
October in Tennessee

Far, far away, beyond a hazy height,
The turquoise skies are hung in dreamy sleep;
Below, the fields of cotton, fleecy-white, …

Walter Malone English