Love Poems – Page 2597

Harriet Beecher Stowe

She told the story, and the whole world wept
At wrongs and cruelties it had not known
But for this fearless woman’s voice alone. …

Paul Laurence Dunbar English
On the Road

I’ S boun’ to see my gal to-night—
Oh, lone de way, my dearie!
De moon ain’t out, de stars ain’t bright— …

Paul Laurence Dunbar English
A Death Song

Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,
Whah de branch ’ll go a-singin’ as it pass.
An’ w’en I ’s a-layin’ low, …

Paul Laurence Dunbar English
Sunrise in the Hills of Satsuma

The Day unfolds like a lotus bloom,
Pink at the tip and gold at the core,
Rising up swiftly through waters of gloom …

Mary McNeil Fenollosa English
Flying Fish

Out where the sky and the sky-blue sea
Merge in a mist of sheen,
There started a vision of silver things, …

Mary McNeil Fenollosa English
Miyoko San

Snare me the soul of a dragon-fly,
The jewelled heart of a dew-tipped spray,
A star’s quick eye, …

Mary McNeil Fenollosa English
A Drifting Petal

If I, athirst by a stream, should kneel
With never a blossom or bud in sight,
Till down on the theme of its liquid night …

Mary McNeil Fenollosa English
Yuki

When cherry flowers begin to blow
With Yuki’s face beneath them,
The richest petals lose their glow, …

Mary McNeil Fenollosa English
Morning Fancy

O Let me die a-singing!
O let me drown in light!
Another day is winging …

Mary McNeil Fenollosa English
War

The Great Republic goes to war,
But spring still comes as spring has done,
And all the summer months will run …

Grace Ellery Channing-Stetson English