Love Poems – Page 2600

The Cattle of His Hand

All night long through the starlit air and the stillness,
Through the cool wanness of dawn and the burning of noontide,
Onward we strain with a mighty resounding of hoof-beats. …

Wilbur Underwood English
To a Wild Rose Found in October

Thou foolish blossom, all untimely blown!
Poor jest of summer, come when woods are chill!
Thy sister buds, in June’s warm redness grown, …

Ednah Proctor (Clarke) Hayes English
A Good-By

The Wakening bugles cut the night:
“To horse! To horse! Away!”
And thine the lips that bid me go, …

Ednah Proctor (Clarke) Hayes English
The Deathless

What charlatans in this later day
Beat at the gates of Art!
Each with his trick of speech or brush,— …

Ednah Proctor (Clarke) Hayes English
The Dancer

Skin creamy as the furled magnolia bud
That stabs the dusky shadows of her hair;
Great startled eyes, and sudden-pulsing blood …

Ednah Proctor (Clarke) Hayes English
From "The House of a Hundred Lights"

The Young LOVERS
I SAW them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore:
God gave them Youth, God gave them Love, and even God can give no more. …

Frederic Ridgely Torrence English
To Diane

The Ruddy poppies bend and bow,
Diane! do you remember?
The sun you knew shines proudly now, …

Helen Hay English
A Woman's Pride

I Will not look for him, I will not hear
My heart’s loud beating, as I strain to see
Across the rain forlorn and hopelessly, …

Helen Hay English
Love's Kiss

Kiss me but once, and in that space supreme
My whole dark life shall quiver to an end,
Sweet Death shall see my heart and comprehend …

Helen Hay English
Was There Another Spring

Was there another Spring than this?
I half remember, through the haze
Of glimmering nights and golden days, …

Helen Hay English