Love Poems – Page 2605

Miss Nancy's Gown

In days when George the Third was King
And ruled the Old Dominion,
And Law and Fashion owned the sway …

Zitella Cocke English
The Journey

Reluctantly I laid aside my smiles,
Those little, pleasing knickknacks of the face,
And dropped the words accustomed to my tongue, …

Mary Berri (Chapman) Hansbrough English
Little Theocritus

Ye white Sicilian goats, who wander all
About the slopes of this wild mountain pass,
Take heed your horny footsteps do not fall …

Caroline Wilder (Fellowes) Paradise English
Now Is the Cherry in Blossom

Now is the cherry in blossom, Love,
Love of my heart, with the apple to follow;
Over the village at nightfall now …

Mary Eleanor Wilkins English
Gold-of-Ophir Roses

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o Flower of passion, rocked by balmy gales,
Flushed with life’s ecstasy, …

Grace Atherton Dennen English
I Know Not Why

I Lift mine eyes against the sky,
The clouds are weeping, so am I;
I lift mine eyes again on high, …

Morris Rosenfeld English
Gentian

So all day long I followed through the fields
The voice of Autumn, calling from afar;
And now I thought: “Yon hazel thicket yields …

Elizabeth Green Crane English
Dryad Song

I Am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
Hope floods my heart with delight!
Running on air mad with life dizzy, reeling, …

Margaret Fuller English
Sing Again

YOU sang me a song:
’T was the close of the year—
Sing again! …

Marie Van Vorst English
The Parting of the Ways - Gilder

Untrammelled Giant of the West,
With all of Nature’s gifts endowed,
With all of Heaven’s mercies blessed, …

Joseph B English