Love Poems – Page 2658

The Old Vagabond

Anonymous translation from the French
HERE in the ditch my bones I ’ll lay;
Weak, wearied, old, the world I leave. …

Pierre Jean de Béranger English
The Beggar

Pity the sorrows of a poor old man!
Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door,
Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span, …

Thomas Moss English
A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter

The English Game Laws
THE MERRY brown hares came leaping
Over the crest of the hill, …

Charles Kingsley English
“They are dear fish to me”

The Farmer’s wife sat at the door,
A pleasant sight to see;
And blithesome were the wee, wee bairns …

Anonymous English
Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother

The Irish Famine
GIVE me three grains of corn, mother,—
Only three grains of corn; …

Amanda M. Edmond English
The Song of the Shirt

With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, …

Thomas Hood English
The Pauper’s Drive

There ’s a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot,—
To the churchyard a pauper is going, I wot;
The road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs; …

Thomas Noel English
Beautiful Snow

O The SNOW, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and the earth below!
Over the house-tops, over the street, …

John Whitaker Watson English
London Churches

I Stood, one Sunday morning,
Before a large church door,
The congregation gathered, …

Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton English
Guilty, or Not Guilty?

She stood at the bar of justice,
A creature wan and wild,
In form too small for a woman, …

Anonymous English