Love Poems – Page 2603

Experience

I
like Crusoe with the bootless gold we stand
Upon the desert verge of death, and say: …

Edith Wharton English
Intaglios

Tennessee
in Tennessee, the dogwood tree
Blossoms to-night: towards the sea …

Francis Brooks English
The Recruit

Sez Corporal Madden to Private McFadden:
“Bedad, yer a bad ’un!
Now turn out yer toes! …

Robert William Chambers English
The Little Nipper an' 'is Ma

“yer know me little nipper,”
Said ’Energy ’Awkins, M. P.
“Well, ’e ’s a little champion, …

George Fauvel Gouraud English
D'Artagnan's Ride

Fifty leagues, fifty leagues—and I ride, and I ride—
Fifty leagues as the black crow flies.
None of the three are by my side… …

Gouverneur Morris English
To a Moth

Poor Creature! nay, I ’ll not say poor,
Why, surely, thou art wondrous blest;
Right royal is this sepulchre …

Charles Edward Thomas English
Methinks the Measure

Methinks the measure of a man is not
To save a state in midst of fierce alarms,
Do noble deeds and mighty feats of arms, …

Percy Adams Hutchison English
Helios

Oh, I am weary of a heart that brings
Star-worship even to the shining sun:
Rather a savage whose whole heart hath won …

Joel Elias Spingarn English
Darkness

Oft have I stood upon the foaming strand
Watching the moonlight tremble on the sea;
Oft have I seen the stars fade silently …

James Naumberg Rosenberg English
Attainment

Through my open window comes the sweet perfuming
Of roses reddening under skies of June;
No sight more fair than roses in red bloom, …

Algernon Tassin English