Love Poems – Page 2611

A Parable

Between the sandhills and the sea
A narrow strip of silver sand,
Whereon a little maid doth stand, …

Mathilde Blind English
Choosing a Name

I Have got a new-born sister;
I was nigh the first that kissed her.
When the nursing-woman brought her …

Mary Lamb English
“What does little birdie say?”

From “Sea Dreams”
WHAT does little birdie say
In her nest at peep of day? …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
Go Sleep, ma Honey

Whipp’will ’s singin’ to de moon,—
Go sleep, ma honey, m—m.
He sing a pow’ful mo’nful tune, …

Edward D. Barker English
No Baby in the House

No baby in the house, I know,
’T is far too nice and clean.
No toys, by careless fingers strewn, …

Clara G. Dolliver English
A Dutch Lullaby

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe—
Sailed on a river of misty light …

Eugene Field English
Half-Waking

I Thought it was the little bed
I slept in long ago;
A straight white curtain at the head, …

William Allingham English
Twinkle, Twinkle

Twinkle, twinkle, little star;
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high, …

Anonymous English
Pretty Cow

Thank you, pretty cow, that made
Pleasant milk to soak my bread,
Every day and every night, …

Jane Taylor English
The Three Little Kittens

(a Cat’s Tale, with Additions)
THREE little kittens lost their mittens;
And they began to cry, …

Eliza Lee Follen English