Love Poems – Page 2601

Does the Pearl Know?

Does the pearl know, that in its shade and sheen,
The dreamy rose and tender wavering green,
Are hid the hearts of all the ranging seas, …

Helen Hay English
Sigh Not for Love

Sigh not for love,—the ways of love are dark!
Sweet Child, hold up the hollow of your hand
And catch the sparks that flutter from the star! …

Helen Hay English
Coleridge

Thine is the mystic melody,
The far-off murmur of some dreamland sea
Lifting throughout the night, …

George Sidney Hellman English
The Hudson

Where in its old historic splendor stands
The home of England’s far-farmed Parliament,
And waters of the Thames in calm content …

George Sidney Hellman English
Love and Time

Across the gardens of Life they go,
A strange, ill-mated pair;
By paths where naught but blossoms blow, …

Beatrix Demarest Lloyd English
With Roses

In each green leaf a memory let lie:
The pain that follows on the heels of bliss
In every thorn; each waft of incense be a sign …

Beatrix Demarest Lloyd English
Night-Wind

Like some great pearl from out the Orient,
Upheld by unseen hands,—in its rich weight
An offering to adorn a queen’s proud state …

Beatrix Demarest Lloyd English
The Flag Goes By

Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, …

Henry Holcomb Bennett English
The Coasters

OVERLOADED, undermanned,
Trusting to a lee,
Playing I-spy with the land, …

Thomas Fleming Day English
Of the Lost Ship

What has become of the good ship Kite?
Where is her hull of chosen oak?
Who were the Victors, what the Fight? …

Eugene Richard White English