Love Poems – Page 2598

Judgment

A Dead soul lay in the light of day,
Desperate, wan, it had passed;
Oft foiled, it had toiled on its upward way, …

Grace Ellery Channing-Stetson English
A Song of Arno

It is the hour when Arno turns
Her gold to chrysoprase;
When each low-hanging star outburns …

Grace Ellery Channing-Stetson English
When the Great Gray Ships Come In

To eastward ringing, to westward winging, o’er mapless miles of sea,
On winds and tides the gospel rides that the furthermost isles are free,
And the furthermost isles make answer, harbor, and height, and hill, …

Guy Wetmore Carryl English
The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven

A Raven sat upon a tree,
And not a word he spoke, for
His beak contained a piece of Brie, …

Guy Wetmore Carryl English
A Moral in Sevres

Upon my mantel-piece they stand,
While all its length between them lies;
He throws a kiss with graceful hand, …

Mildred Howells English
Down a Woodland Way

As I was strolling down a woodland way,
I met fair Spring, a garland on her arm;
She stood a moment gazing in dismay, …

Mildred Howells English
A Song of the Wave

This is the song of the wave! The mighty one!
Child of the soul of silence, beating the air to sound.
White as a live terror, as a drawn sword, …

George Cabot Lodge English
A Song

Sing me a sweet, low song of night
Before the moon is risen,
A song that tells of the stars’ delight …

Hildegarde Hawthorne English
My Rose

On a green slope, most fragrant with the spring,
One sweet, fair day I planted a red rose,
That grew, beneath my tender nourishing, …

Hildegarde Hawthorne English
Wood-Song

Love must be a fearsome thing
That can bind a maid
Glad of life as leaves in spring, …

Josephine Preston Peabody English