Love Poems – Page 2609

The Lost Heir

“O where, and O where
Is my bonnie laddie gone?”
—OLD SONG. …

Thomas Hood English
The Gambols of Children

Down the dimpled greensward dancing,
Bursts a flaxen-headed bevy,—
Bud-lipt boys and girls advancing, …

George Darley English
The Child in the Garden

From The Atlantic Magazine
WHEN to the garden of untroubled thought
I came of late, and saw the open door, …

Henry Van Dyke English
To a Child During Sickness

SLEEP breathes at last from out thee,
My little patient boy;
And balmy rest about thee …

Leigh Hunt English
Baby Bell

I.
have you not heard the poets tell
How came the dainty Baby Bell …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
Our Wee White Rose

All in our marriage garden
Grew, smiling up to God,
A bonnier flower than ever …

Gerald Massey English
Baby’s Shoes

O, Those little, those little blue shoes!
Those shoes that no little feet use.
O the price were high …

William Cox Bennett English
Baby Zulma’s Christmas Carol

A Lighter scarf of richer fold
The morning flushed upon our sight,
And Evening trimmed her lamps of gold, …

Augustus Julian Requier English
On the Death of an Infant

From the Dutch by H. S. Van Dyk
A HOST of angels flying,
Through cloudless skies impelled, …

Dirk Smits English
“Three years she grew”

Three years she grew in sun and shower;
Then Nature said, “A lovelier flower
On earth was never sown: …

William Wordsworth English