Love Poems – Page 2606

The Baby

From the Sanscrit by Sir William Jones
On parents’ knees, a naked, new-born child,
Weeping thou sat’st when all around thee smiled: …

Kalidasa English
Birth

Just when each bud was big with bloom,
And as prophetic of perfume,
When spring, with her ight horoscope, …

Annie R. Stillman English
Weighing the Baby

“how many pounds does the baby weigh—
Baby who came but a month ago?
How many pounds from the crowning curl …

Ethelinda Elliott Beers English
Laus Infantium

In praise of little children I will say
God first made man, then found a better way
For woman, but his third way was the best. …

William Canton English
Étude Réaliste

I.
a Baby’s feet, like sea-shells pink,
Might tempt, should Heaven see meet, …

Algernon Charles Swinburne English
The Angel’s Whisper

[In Ireland they have a pretty fancy that when a child smiles in its sleep it is “talking with angels.”]
A BABY was sleeping;
Its mother was weeping; …

Samuel Lover English
The Happy Hour

The Busy day is over,
The household work is done;
The cares that fret the morning …

Mary Frances Butts English
Japanese Lullaby

Sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings,—
Little blue pigeon with velvet eyes;
Sleep to the singing of mother-bird swinging— …

Eugene Field English
Philip, My King

“Who bears upon his baby brow the round
And top of sovereignty.”
Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV. Sc. 1. …

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik English
Baby May

Cheeks as soft as July peaches;
Lips whose dewy scarlet teaches
Poppies paleness; round large eyes …

William Cox Bennett English