Love Poems – Page 2596

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A Youth in apparel that glittered
Went to walk in a grim forest.
There he met an assassin …

Stephen Crane English
Ancestry

Once I saw mountains angry,
And ranged in battle-front.
Against them stood a little man; …

Stephen Crane English
The Violets

There was a land where lived no violets.
A traveller at once demanded: “Why?”
The people told him: …

Stephen Crane English
I Explain

I Explain the silvered passing of a ship at night,
The sweep of each sad lost wave,
The dwindling boom of the steel thing’s striving, …

Stephen Crane English
The Arid Lands

These lands are clothed in burning weather,
These parched lands pant for God’s cool rain;
I look away where strike together …

Herbert Bashford English
By the Pacific

From this quaint cabin window I can see
The strange, vague line of ghostly drift-wood, though
No ray of silver moon or soft star-glow …

Herbert Bashford English
Night in Camp

Fierce burns our fire of driftwood; overhead
Gaunt maples lift arms against the night;
The stars are sobbing,—sorrow-shaken, white, …

Herbert Bashford English
Morning in Camp

A Bed of ashes and a half-burned brand
Now mark the spot where last night’s campfire sprung
And licked the dark with slender, scarlet tongue; …

Herbert Bashford English
For Decoration Day

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1861–1865
but do we truly mourn our soldier dead, …

Rupert Hughes English
A Corn-Song

On the wide veranda white,
In the purple failing light,
Sits the master while the sun is lowly burning; …

Paul Laurence Dunbar English