Love Poems – Page 2743
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On Anne Allen
The Wind blew keenly from the Western sea, / And drove the dead leaves slanting from the tree— / Vanity of vanities, the Preacher saith— … -
Sonnet: “Yea, Love is strong as life”
(Suggested by Mr. Watts’s Picture of Love and Death) / YEA, Love is strong as life; he casts out fear, / And wrath, and hate, and all our envious foes; … -
Jeune Fille et Jeune Fleur
Anonymous translation from the French / THE BIER descends, the spotless roses too, / The father’s tribute in his saddest hour: … -
Coronach
From “The Lady of the Lake,” Canto III. / HE is gone on the mountain, / He is lost to the forest, … -
Evelyn Hope
Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead! / Sit and watch by her side an hour. / That is her book-shelf, this her bed; … -
“Thy braes were bonny”
Thy braes were bonny, Yarrow stream! / When first on them I met my lover; / Thy braes how dreary, Yarrow stream! … -
“Farewell to thee, Araby’s daughter”
From “The Fire-Worshippers” / FAREWELL,—farewell to thee, Araby’s daughter! / (Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea;) … -
“Softly woo away her breath”
Softly woo away her breath, / Gentle death! / Let her leave thee with no strife, … -
“She died in beauty”
She died in beauty,—like a rose / Blown from its parent stem; / She died in beauty,—like a pearl … -
The Death of Minnehaha
From “The Song of Hiawatha” / ALL day long roved Hiawatha / In that melancholy forest, …
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