Love Poems – Page 2737
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The Approach of Age
From “Tales of the Hall” / SIX years had passed, and forty ere the six, / When Time began to play his usual tricks: … -
Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples
THE Sun is warm, the sky is clear, / The waves are dancing fast and bright, / Blue isles and snowy mountains wear … -
Perished
Catskill Mountain House / WAVE after wave of greenness rolling down / From mountain top to base, a whispering sea … -
Latest Verses
“On this day I completed my thirty-sixth year.“ / —MISSOLONGHI, JANUARY 23, 1824. / ’T IS time this heart should be unmoved, … -
A Doubting Heart
Where are the swallows fled? / Frozen and dead / Perchance upon some bleak and stormy shore. … -
A Lament
O World! O Life! O Time! / On whose last steps I climb, / Trembling at that where I had stood before; … -
“What can an old man do but die?”
SPRING it is cheery, / Winter is dreary, / Green leaves hang, but the brown must fly; … -
“Over the hill to the poor-house”
Over the hill to the poor-house I ’m trudgin’ my weary way— / I, a woman of seventy, and only a trifle gray— / I, who am smart an’ chipper, for all the years I ’ve told, … -
The Old Vagabond
Anonymous translation from the French / HERE in the ditch my bones I ’ll lay; / Weak, wearied, old, the world I leave. … -
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, …
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