Love Poems – Page 2608

Willie Winkie

Wee Willie WINKIE rins through the town,
Up stairs and doon stairs, in his nicht-gown,
Tirlin’ at the window, cryin’ at the lock, …

William Miller English
To J. H.

Four Years Old:—A Nursery Song
… “Pien d’ amori,
Pien di canti, e pien di fiori.”—FRUGONI. …

Leigh Hunt English
Seven Times Four

Maternity
HEIGH-HO! daisies and buttercups,
Fair yellow daffodils, stately and tall! …

Jean Ingelow English
The Mother’s Hope

Is there, when the winds are singing
In the happy summer-time,—
When the raptured air is ringing …

Laman Blanchard English
Bedtime

’t Is bedtime; say your hymn, and bid “Good-night;
God bless Mamma, Papa, and dear ones all.”
Your half-shut eyes beneath your eyelids fall, …

Francis, Earl of Rosslyn English
To Hartley Coleridge

Six Years Old
O THOU whose fancies from afar are brought;
Who of thy words dost make a mock apparel, …

William Wordsworth English
Little Goldenhair

Goldenhair climbed up on grandpapa’s knee;
Dear little Goldenhair! tired was she,
All the day busy as busy could be. …

Mrs. F. Burge Smith English
The Unfinished Prayer

“now I lay,”—repeat it, darling.
“Lay me,” lisped the tiny lips
Of my daughter, kneeling, bending …

Anonymous English
Cuddle Doon

The Bairnies cuddle doon at nicht
Wi’ muckle faught an’ din;
“Oh try and sleep, ye waukrife rogues, …

Alexander Anderson English
Seven Times One

There’s no dew left on the daisies and clover,
There’s no rain left in heaven.
I ’ve said my “seven times” over and over,— …

Jean Ingelow English