Love Poems – Page 2594

Joy Enough

Into the caverns of the sea
Shall all at last descend,
Who now press forward gallantly …

Barrett Eastman English
From "An Ode in Time of Hesitation"

Robert Gould SHAW
THE WARS we wage
Are noble, and our battles still are won …

William Vaughn Moody English
Nature: the Artist

Such hints as untaught Nature yields!
The calm disorder of the sea,
The straggling splendor of the fields, …

Frederic Lawrence Knowles English
A Pasture

Rough pasture where the blackberries grow!—
It bears upon its churlish face
No sign of beauty, art, or grace; …

Frederic Lawrence Knowles English
Luke Havergal

Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal,—
There where the vines cling crimson on the wall,—
And in the twilight wait for what will come. …

Edwin Arlington Robinson English
Ballade of Dead Friends

As we the withered ferns
By the roadway lying,
Time, the jester, spurns …

Edwin Arlington Robinson English
The Clerks

I Did not think that I should find them there
When I came back again; but there they stood,
As in the days they dreamed of when young blood …

Edwin Arlington Robinson English
The Pity of the Leaves

Vengeful across the cold November moors,
Loud with ancestral shame there came the bleak,
Sad wind that shrieked, and answered with a shriek, …

Edwin Arlington Robinson English
The House on the Hill

They are all gone away,
The House is shut and still,
There is nothing more to say. …

Edwin Arlington Robinson English
An International Episode

We were ordered to Samoa from the coast of Panama,
And for two long months we sailed the unequal sea,
Till we made the horseshoe harbor with its curving coral bar, …

Caroline Duer English