Love Poems – Page 2599

Sonnet in a Garden

Dumb Mother of all music, let me rest
On thy great heart while summer days pass by;
While all the heat up-quivers, let me lie …

Josephine Preston Peabody English
A Changeling Grateful

Here they give me greeting,
House me warm within,
Break their bread and share it …

Josephine Preston Peabody English
Caravans

What bring ye me, O camels, across the southern desert,
The wan and parching desert, pale beneath the dusk?
Ye great slow-moving ones, faithful as care is faithful, …

Josephine Preston Peabody English
Rubric

I ’ll not believe the dullard dark,
Nor all the winds that weep,
But I shall find the farthest dream …

Josephine Preston Peabody English
Isolation

O Brother Planets, unto whom I cry,
Know ye, in all the worlds, a gladder thing
Than this glad life of ours, this wandering …

Josephine Preston Peabody English
After Music

I Saw not they were strange, the ways I roam,
Until the music called, and called me thence,
And tears stirred in my heart as tears may come …

Josephine Preston Peabody English
A Far-Off Rose

O Far-off rose of long ago,
An hour of sweet, an hour of red,
To live, to breathe, and then to go …

Josephine Preston Peabody English
Kol Nidra

LO! above the mournful chanting,
Rise the fuller-sounded wailings
Of the soul’s most solemn anthem. …

Joseph Leiser English
The Banjo of the Past

You ax about dat music made
On banjos long ago,
An’ wants to know why it ain’t played …

Howard Weeden English
The Borrowed Child

My chile? Lord, no, she ’s none o’ mine;
She ’s des one I have tried
To put in place of Anna Jane— …

Howard Weeden English