Love Poems – Page 2802
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The Ancient and Modern Muses
The Monument outlasting bronze / Was promised well by bards of old; / The lucid outline of their lay … -
On his “Sonnets of the Wingless Hours”
I Wrought them like a targe of hammered gold / On which all Troy is battling round and round; / Or Circe’s cup, embossed with snakes that wound … -
The Poet of To-day
More than the soul of ancient song is given / To thee, O poet of to-day!—thy dower / Comes, from a higher than Olympian heaven, … -
Unknown Poets
From “The Excursion,” Book I. / O, MANY are the poets that are sown / By nature; men endowed with highest gifts, … -
The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme
When the ways are heavy with mire and rut, / In November fogs, in December snows, / When the North Wind howls, and the doors are shut,— … -
From “The Odyssey”
Prefacing the Butcher-Lang Translation / AS one that for a weary space has lain / Lulled by the song of Circe and her wine … -
Sonnet: “Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show”
From “Astrophel and Stella” / LOVING in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, / That she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain,— … -
Broken Music
“A note / All out of tune in this world’s instrument.” / —AMY LEVY. … -
The Modern Poet
A Song of Derivations / I COME from nothing; but from where / Come the undying thoughts I bear? … -
The Jester’s Plea
[Published in a volume by several authors for the benefit of the starving weavers of Lancashire during the American civil war.] / THE WORLD! Was jester ever in / A viler than the present? …
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