Love Poems – Page 2621

• The Happy Mother

  An’ O! may I never live single again,
  I wish I may never live single again;
  I hae a gudeman, an’ a hame o’ my ain, …

  Alexander Laing English

• Tired Mothers

  A Little elbow leans upon your knee,
  Your tired knee that has so much to bear;
  A child’s dear eyes are looking lovingly …

  May Riley Smith English

• Not One to Spare

  “which shall it be? Which shall it be?”
  I looked at John—John looked at me
  (Dear, patient John, who loves me yet …

  Anonymous English

• Seven Times Six

  Giving in Marriage
  TO bear, to nurse, to rear,
  To watch, and then to lose: …

  Jean Ingelow English

• “I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled”

  I Knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled
  Above the green elms, that a cottage was near,
  And I said, “If there ’s peace to be found in the world, …

  Thomas Moore English

• The Ingle-Side

  It ’s rare to see the morning bleeze
  Like a bonfire frae the sea,
  It ’s fair to see the burnie kiss …

  Hew Ainslie English

• By the Fireside

  What is it fades and flickers in the fire,
  Mutters and sighs, and yields reluctant breath,
  As if in the red embers some desire, …

  Lucy Larcom English

• My Ain Fireside

  I Hae see great anes and sat in great ha’s,
  ’Mang lords and fine ladies a’ covered wi’ braws,
  At feasts made for princes wi’ princes I ’ve been, …

  Elizabeth Hamilton English

• A Winter-Evening Hymn to My Fire

  O Thou of home the guardian Lar,
  And, when our earth hath wandered far
  Into the cold, and deep snow covers …

  James Russell Lowell English

• The Cotter’s Saturday Night

  Inscribed to R. Aiken, Esq.
  “Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
  Their homely joys and destiny obscure; …

  Robert Burns English

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