Love Poems – Page 2803
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Verses, why Burnt
How many verses have I thrown / Into the fire because the one / Peculiar word, the wanted most, … -
Sweet Nature’s Voice
From “Susan: A Poem of Degrees” / HER Master gave the signal, with a look: / Then, timidly as if afraid, she took … -
“One day I wrote her name”
From “Amoretti.” Sonnet LXXV. / ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand, / But came the waves, and washèd it away: … -
The Poet’s Death
From “The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” Canto V. / CALL it not vain:—they do not err, / Who say, that when the poet dies, … -
Thy Songs and Mine
Sing thou my songs for me when I am dead! / Soul of my soul, some day thou wilt awake / To see the morning on the hilltops break, … -
The Sharing of the Earth
From the German by Lord Bulwer-Lytton / “TAKE the world,” cried the God from his heaven / To men—“I proclaim you its heirs; … -
The Immortality of Genius
From the Latin by Dr. James Cranstoun / ORPHEUS, ’t is said, the Thracian lyre-strings sweeping, / Stayed the swift stream and soothed the savage brute; … -
Books
From “The Kaléder of Sheperdes,” 1528 / HE that many bokes redys, / Cunnyinge shall he be. … -
The Scholar
From “Edwin the Fair” / THIS life, and all that it contains, to him / Is but a tissue of illuminous dreams … -
The Book-Stall
It stands in a winding street, / A quiet and restful nook, / Apart from the endless beat …
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