Love Poems – Page 2786
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To a Louse
On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church / HA! whare ye gaun, ye crawlin’ ferlie? / Your impudence protects you sairly: … -
To a Mouse
On Turning Her up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785 / WEE, sleekit, cowerin’, timorous beastie, / O, what a panic ’s in thy breastie! … -
The Housekeeper
The Frugal snail, with forecast of repose, / Carries his house with him where’er he goes; / Peeps out,—and if there comes a shower of rain, … -
Remonstrance with the Snails
YE little snails, / With slippery tails, / Who noiselessly travel … -
The Lion’s Ride
Anonymous translation from the German / THE LION is the desert’s king; through his domain so wide / Right swiftly and right royally this night he means to ride. … -
Fodder-Time
From the German by John Eliot Bowen / From “Songs of Toil” / HOW sweet the manger smells! The cows all listen … -
The Ox
From the Italian by Frank Sewall / From the “Poesie” / I LOVE thee, pious ox; a gentle feeling … -
Folding the Flocks
Shepherds all, and maidens fair, / Fold your flocks up; for the air / ’Gins to thicken, and the sun … -
Beth Gêlert
The Spearmen heard the bugle sound, / And cheerily smiled the morn; / And many a brach, and many a hound, … -
To a Dog’s Memory
The Gusty morns are here, / When all the reeds ride low with level spear; / And on such nights as lured us far of yore, …
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