Love Poems – Page 2800
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Roma
From the Italian by Frank Sewall / From “Poesie” / GIVE to the wind thy locks; all glittering … -
“There is such power”
From “Sonnets in Shadow” / THERE is such power even in smallest things / To bring the dear past back; a flower’s tint, … -
Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk
During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez / I AM monarch of all I survey,— / My right there is none to dispute; … -
Mignon’s Song
From the German by Thomas Carlyle / From “Wilhelm Meister” / “KNOW’ST thou the land where citron-apples bloom, … -
“Oft in the stilly night”
Oft in the stilly night, / Ere slumber’s chain has bound me, / Fond Memory brings the light … -
The Brier-Wood Pipe
Ha! bully for me again, when my turn for picket is over, / And now for a smoke as I lie, with the moonlight, out in the clover. / My pipe, it ’s only a knot from the root of a brier-wood tree, … -
Memory and Oblivion
From the Greek by Robert Bland / ALL hail, Remembrance and Forgetfulness! / Trace, Memory, trace whate’er is sweet or kind: … -
The Inner Vision
Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes / To pace the ground, if path there be or none, / While a fair region round the traveller lies … -
Thought
Thought is deeper than all speech, / Feeling deeper than all thought; / Souls to souls can never teach … -
Dream-Life
From the Spanish by Edward Fitzgerald / From “Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made of” / AND yet—and yet—in these our ghostly lives, …
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