Love Poems – Page 2593

The Flight of the Heart

The Heart soars up like a bird
From a nest of care;
Up, up to a larger sky, …

Dora Read Goodale English
The Soul of Man

Say, in a hut of mean estate
A light just glimmers and then is gone,
Nature is seen to hesitate,— …

Dora Read Goodale English
The Judgement

Thou hast evil
And given place to the devil;
Yet so cunningly thou concealest …

Dora Read Goodale English
The Flute

PUFFED up with luring to her knees
The rabbits from the blackberries,
Quaint little satyrs, and shy and mute, …

Joseph Russell Taylor English
The Veery-Thrush

Blow softly, thrush, upon the hush
That makes the least leaf loud,
Blow, wild of heart, remote, apart …

Joseph Russell Taylor English
A Song with a Discord

Though Winter come with dripping skies,
And laden winds and strong,
Yet I ’ll read summer in her eyes …

Arthur Colton English
To Faustine

Something, it may be, you and I
In some deserted yard will lie
Where Memory fades away; …

Arthur Colton English
Silkweed

Lighter than dandelion down,
Or feathers from the white moth’s wing,
Out of the gates of bramble-town …

Philip Henry Savage English
Infinity

I Dare not think that thou art by, to stand
And face omnipotence so near at hand!
When I consider thee, how must I shrink; …

Philip Henry Savage English
Richard Somers

His body lies upon the shore,
Afar from his beloved land,
And over him shine tropic suns; …

Barrett Eastman English