Love Poems – Page 2781
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To the Dandelion
DEAR common flower, that grow’st beside the way, / Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold! / First pledge of blithesome May, … -
Trailing Arbutus
DARLINGS of the forest! / Blossoming, alone, / When Earth’s grief is sorest … -
Early June
From “Thyrsis” / SO, some tempestuous morn in early June, / When the year’s primal burst of bloom is o’er, … -
A September Violet
For days the peaks wore hoods of cloud, / The slopes were veiled in chilly rain; / We said: It is the Summer’s shroud, … -
The Wreath
From the Greek by William M. Hardinge / NOW will I weave white violets, daffodils / With myrtle spray, … -
Sunrise: A Hymn of the Marshes
[See full text.] / IN my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain / Of the live-oak, the marsh and the main. … -
The Ivy Green
O, A DAINTY plant is the ivy green, / That creepeth o’er ruins old! / Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, … -
The Mountain Fern
Oh, the fern, the fern, the Irish hill fern, / That girds our blue lakes from Lough Ine to Lough Erne, / That waves on our crags like the plume of a king, … -
The Maize
“That precious seed into the furrow cast / Earliest in spring-time crowns the harvest last.” / —PHŒBE CARY. … -
The Pumpkin
O, Greenly and fair in the lands of the sun, / The vines of the gourd and the rich melon run, / And the rock and the tree and the cottage enfold, …
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