Love Poems – Page 2591

He Who Hath Loved

He who hath loved hath borne a vassal’s chain,
And worn the royal purple of a king;
Hath shrunk beneath the icy Winter’s sting, …

Walter Malone English
Joined the Blues

Says stonewall Jackson to “Little Phil:” “Phil, have you heard the news?
Why, our ‘Joe’ Wheeler—‘Fighting Joe’—has gone and joined the blues.
“Ay, no mistake—I saw him come—I heard the oath he took— …

John Jerome Rooney English
The Homing

Admiral, Admiral, sailing home—
Sailing home through the far, dim seas,
Know you the sound that over the foam …

John Jerome Rooney English
The Men behind the Guns

A Cheer and salute for the Admiral, and here ’s to the Captain bold,
And never forget the Commodore’s debt when the deeds of might are told!
They stand to the deck through the battle’s wreck when the great shells roar and screech— …

John Jerome Rooney English
Where Helen Comes

Where Helen comes, as falls the dew,
Where Helen comes Peace cometh too!
From out the golden, western lands, …

John Jerome Rooney English
The Rahat

Upon Nirwána’s brink the ráhat stood;
Beneath him rolled the Ocean of the All:
Responsive flowed the current of his blood …

John Jerome Rooney English
A Beam of Light

A Beam of light, from the infinite depths of the midnight sky,
Painted with infinite love a star in a convict’s eye;
When, lo! the ghosts of his sins were afraid and fled with a curse, …

John Jerome Rooney English
A Song about Singing

O Nightingale, the poet’s bird,
A kinsman dear thou art,
Who never sings so well as when …

Anne Reeve Aldrich English
In November

Brown earth-line meets gray heaven,
And all the land looks sad;
But Love ’s the little leaven …

Anne Reeve Aldrich English
Music of Hungary

My body answers you, my blood
Leaps at your maddening, piercing call
The fierce notes startle, and the veil …

Anne Reeve Aldrich English