Love Poems – Page 2607

Little Feet

Two little feet, so small that both may nestle
In one caressing hand,—
Two tender feet upon the untried border …

Elizabeth Akers Allen English
Baby Louise

I ’m in love with you, Baby Louise!
With your silken hair, and your soft blue eyes,
And the dreamy wisdom that in them lies, …

Margaret Winship Eytinge English
Silent Baby

The Baby sits in her cradle,
Watching the world go round,
Enrapt in a mystical silence, …

Ellen Bartlett Currier English
The Household Sovereign

From “The Hanging of the Crane”
SEATED I see the two again,
But not alone; they entertain …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
On the Picture of an Infant

From the Greek by Samuel Rogers
Playing near a Precipice
WHILE on the cliff with calm delight she kneels, …

Leonidas of Alexandria English
The Mother’s Sacrifice

The Cold winds swept the mountain’s height,
And pathless was the dreary wild,
And mid the cheerless hours of night …

Seba Smith English
Mother and Child

The Wind blew wide the casement, and within—
It was the loveliest picture!—a sweet child
Lay in its mother’s arms, and drew its life, …

William Gilmore Simms English
Children

Children are what the mothers are.
No fondest father’s fondest care
Can fashion so the infant heart …

Walter Savage Landor English
Polly

Brown eyes,
Straight nose;
Dirt pies, …

William Brighty Rands English
To my Infant Son

THOU happy, happy elf!
(But stop, first let me kiss away that tear,)
Thou tiny image of myself! …

Thomas Hood English