Love Poems – Page 2622

A New England Home in Winter

From “Snow-Bound”
THE SUN that brief December day
Rose cheerless over hills of gray, …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
Heart-Rest

From “Philip Van Artevelde”
THE HEART of man, walk in which way it will,
Sequestered or frequented, smooth or rough, …

Sir Henry Taylor English
Homeward Bound

From the Latin by Theodore Martin
DEAR Sirmio, that art the very eye
Of islands and peninsulas, that lie …

Gaius Valerius Catullus English
The Wanderer’s Home

From “The Traveller”
REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po, …

Oliver Goldsmith English
A Picture

The Farmer sat in his easy-chair,
Smoking his pipe of clay,
While his hale old wife, with busy care, …

Charles Gamage Eastman English
In the Cellar

From “Bitter Sweet”
SIXTEEN barrels of cider
Ripening all in a row! …

Josiah Gilbert Holland English
Two Pictures

An Old farm-house with meadows wide,
And sweet with clover on each side;
A bright-eyed boy, who looks from out …

Annie D. Green English
A Shepherd’s Life

From “Third Part of Henry VI.,” Act II. Sc. 5.
KING HENRY.—O God! methinks, it were a happy life,
To be no better than a homely swain; …

William Shakespeare English
The Country Life

Not what we would, but what we must,
Makes up the sum of living;
Heaven is both more and less than just …

Richard Henry Stoddard English
The Swiss Peasant

From “The Traveller”
TURN me to survey
Where rougher climes a nobler race display, …

Oliver Goldsmith English