Love Poems – Page 2595

A Portrait

A Man more kindly, in his careless way,
Than many who profess a higher creed;
Whose fickle love might change from day to day, …

Caroline Duer English
A Word to the Wise

If wisdom’s height is only disenchantment,
As say the cynics of a certain school,
And sages grow more sad in their advancement, …

Caroline Duer English
Helen - U. Valentine

She sits within the white oak hall,
Hung with the trophies of the chase—
Helen, a stately maid and tall, …

Edward A English
The Spirit of the Wheat - U. Valentine

Such times as windy moods do stir
The foamless billows of the wheat,
I glimpse the floating limbs of her …

Edward A English
Sinfonia Eroica

HE comes, the happy warrior,
The wind has blown him on!
He is great and terrible and sweet, …

Alice Archer (Sewall) James English
The Butterfly

I Am not what I was yesterday,
God knows my name.
I am made in a smooth and beautiful way, …

Alice Archer (Sewall) James English
Processional

MY love leads the white bulls to sacrifice.
He is white, and he leans against their folded necks.
Blue is the sky behind them, and the dust from the highway yellows his ivory limbs. …

Alice Archer (Sewall) James English
The Peaks

In the night
Gray, heavy clouds muffled the valleys,
And the peaks looked toward God alone. …

Stephen Crane English
'Scaped

Once I knew a fine song,
—It is true, believe me,—
It was all of birds, …

Stephen Crane English
The Black Riders

Black riders came from the sea.
There was clang and clang of spear and shield,
And clash and clash of hoof and heel, …

Stephen Crane English