Love Poems – Page 2764
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On Hearing a little Music-Box
HALLO!—what?—where, what can it be / That strikes up so deliciously? / I never in my life—what? no! … -
“Those evening bells”
Those evening bells! those evening bells! / How many a tale their music tells / Of youth, and home, and that sweet time … -
City Bells
From “The Lay of St. Aloy’s” / LOUD and clear / From the Saint Nicholas tower, on the listening ear, … -
The Cuckoo Clock
From “The Birthday” / BUT chief—surpassing all—a cuckoo clock! / That crowning wonder! miracle of art! … -
An Etruscan Ring
I. / where, girt with orchard and with olive-yard, / The white hill-fortress glimmers on the hill, … -
Leonardo’s “Monna Lisa”
Make thyself known, Sibyl, or let despair / Of knowing thee be absolute: I wait / Hour-long and waste a soul. What word of fate … -
The Hurricane
LORD of the winds! I feel thee nigh, / I know thy breath in the burning sky! / And I wait, with a thrill in every vein, … -
The Evening Cloud
A Cloud lay cradled near the setting sun, / A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow; / Long had I watched the glory moving on … -
A Still Day in Autumn
I Love to wander through the woodlands hoary / In the soft light of an autumnal day, / When Summer gathers up her robes of glory, … -
The Sunset City
There ’s a city that lies in the Kingdom of Clouds, / In the glorious country on high, / Which an azure and silvery curtain enshrouds, …
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