Love Poems – Page 2797
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Fame
From “An Essay on Man,” Epistle IV. / WHAT ’s fame?—a fancied life in others’ breath, / A thing beyond us, e’en before our death. … -
Pelters of Pyramids
A Shoal of idlers, from a merchant craft / Anchored off Alexandria, went ashore, / And mounting asses in their headlong glee, … -
Enid’s Song
From “Idyls of the King” / TURN, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud; / Turn thy wild wheel through sunshine, storm, and cloud; … -
Fortune
From “Fanny” / BUT Fortune, like some others of her sex, / Delights in tantalizing and tormenting. … -
Undeveloped Lives
Not every thought can find its words, / Not all within is known; / For minds and hearts have many chords … -
Augury
I. / a Horse-shoe nailed, for luck, upon a mast; / That mast, wave-bleached, upon the shore was cast! … -
“Keep sweet and keep movin’”
Homely phrase of our southland bright— / Keep steady step to the flam of the drum; / Touch to the left—eyes to the right— … -
A Tear
O That the chemist’s magic art / Could crystallize this sacred treasure! / Long should it glitter near my heart, … -
The Jester’s Sermon
The Jester shook his hood and bells, and leaped upon a chair; / The pages laughed, the women screamed, and tossed their scented hair; / The falcon whistled, staghounds bayed, the lapdog barked without, … -
At Midsummer
The Spacious Noon enfolds me with its peace— / The affluent Midsummer wraps me round— / So still the earth and air, that scarce a sound …
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