Love Poems – Page 2592

A Crowned Poet

In thy coach of state
Pass, O King, along:
He no envy feels …

Anne Reeve Aldrich English
Love's Change

I Went to dig a grave for Love,
But the earth was so stiff and cold
That, though I strove through the bitter night, …

Anne Reeve Aldrich English
Fraternity

I Ask not how thy suffering came,
Or if by sin, or if by shame,
Or if by Fate’s capricious rulings: …

Anne Reeve Aldrich English
April-and Dying

Green blood fresh pulsing through the trees,
Blacks buds, that sun and shower distend;
All other things begin anew, …

Anne Reeve Aldrich English
A Little Parable

I Made the cross myself whose weight
Was later laid on me.
This thought is torture as I toil …

Anne Reeve Aldrich English
Death at Daybreak

I Shall go out when the light comes in—
There lie my cast-off form and face;
I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, …

Anne Reeve Aldrich English
The Eternal Justice

Thank God that shall judge my soul, not man!
I marvel when they say,
“Think of that awful Day …

Anne Reeve Aldrich English
Prairie

Across the sombre prairie sea
The dark swells billow heavily.
Are the looming ridges near of far …

Herbert Bates English
The Heavens Are Our Riddle

The Heavens are our riddle; and the sea,
Forested earth, the grassy rustling plain,
Snows, rains, and thunders. Yea, and even we …

Herbert Bates English
From "The Old-Fashioned Garden"

Fair is each budding thing the garden shows,
From spring’s frail crocus to the latest bloom
Of fading autumn. Every wind that blows …

John Russell Hayes English