Love Poems – Page 2613

A Little Child’s Hymn

For Night and Morning
THOU that once, on mother’s knee,
Wast a little one like me, …

Francis Turner Palgrave English
“By cool Siloam’s shady rill”

By cool Siloam’s shady rill
How sweet the lily grows!
How sweet the breath beneath the hill …

Reginald Heber English
The Romance of the Swan’s Nest

LITTLE Ellie sits alone
Mid the beeches of a meadow,
By a stream-side on the grass, …

Elizabeth Barrett Browning English
A Good Play

We built a ship upon the stairs
All made of the back-bedroom chairs,
And filled it full of sofa pillows …

Robert Louis Stevenson English
The Dead Doll

You needn’t be trying to comfort me—I tell you my dolly is dead!
There ’s no use in saying she isn’t, with a crack like that in her head.
It ’s just like you said it wouldn’t hurt much to have my tooth out, that day; …

Margaret Thomson Janvier English
Foreign Children

Little Indian, Sioux or Crow,
Little frosty Eskimo,
Little Turk or Japanee, …

Robert Louis Stevenson English
The Unseen Playmate

When children are playing alone on the green,
In comes the playmate that never was seen.
When children are happy and lonely and good, …

Robert Louis Stevenson English
The Dancers

From Machaon and the Faun
I DANCE and dance! Another faun,
A black one, dances on the lawn. …

Michael Field English
My Shadow

I Have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see,
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; …

Robert Louis Stevenson English
Little Bell

Piped the Blackbird, on the beechwood spray,
“Pretty maid, slow wandering this way,
What ’s your name?” quoth he,— …

Thomas Westwood English