Love Poems – Page 2619

A Knot of Blue

For the Boys of Yale
SHE hath no gems of lustre bright
To sparkle in her hair; …

Samuel Minturn Peck English
Dollie

She sports a witching gown,
With a ruffle up and down
On the skirt; …

Samuel Minturn Peck English
Beware!

Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I KNOW a maiden fair to see,
Take care! …

From the German English
Peg of Limavaddy

Riding from Coleraine
(Famed for lovely Kitty),
Came a Cockney bound …

William Makepeace Thackeray English
The Girl of All Periods

“and even our women,” lastly grumbles Ben,
“Leaving their nature, dress and talk like men!”
A damsel, as our train stops at Five Ashes, …

Coventry Patmore English
On a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Ye distant spires, ye antique towers,
That crowned the watery glade,
Where grateful Science still adores …

Thomas Gray English
Spring Song

Make me over, mother April,
When the sap begins to stir!
When thy flowery hand delivers …

Bliss Carman English
Youth and Love

From “Festus”
SAY gray-beards what they please,
The heart of age is like an emptied wine-cup; …

Philip James Bailey English
The Joys of the Road

To R. H.
NOW the joys of the road are chiefly these:
A crimson touch on the hard-wood trees; …

Bliss Carman English
Hope and Fear

Beneath the shadow of dawn’s aerial cope,
With eyes enkindled as the sun’s own sphere,
Hope from the front of youth in godlike cheer …

Algernon Charles Swinburne English