Love Poems – Page 2806
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The Modern House That Jack Built
Behold the mansion reared by dædal Jack. / See the malt, stored in many a plethoric sack, / In the proud cirque of Ivan’s bivouac. … -
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder
Friend of Humanity / NEEDY 1 knife-grinder! whither are you going? / Rough is the road; your wheel is out of order. … -
Deborah Lee
’t IS 1 a dozen or so of years ago, / Somewhere in the West countree, / That a nice girl lived, as ye Hoosiers know … -
The Cock and the Bull
YOU 1 see this pebble-stone? It ’s a thing I bought / Of a bit of a chit of a boy i’ the mid o’ the day— / I like to dock the smaller parts-o’-speech, … -
The Auld Wife
The AULD 1 wife sat at her ivied door, / (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) / A thing she had frequently done before; … -
Lovers, and a Reflection
IN 1 moss-prankt dells which the sunbeams flatter / (And heaven it knoweth what that may mean; / Meaning, however, is no great matter) … -
Nephelidia
From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noonshine, / Pallid and pink as the palm of the flag-flower that flickers with fear of the flies as they float, / Are they looks of our lovers that lustrously lean from a marvel of mystic miraculous moonshine, … -
The Arab
ON, on, my brown Arab, away, away! / Thou hast trotted o’er many a mile to-day, / And I trow right meagre hath been thy fare … -
The Modern Hiawatha
He killed the noble Mudjokivis. / Of the skin he made him mittens, / Made them with the fur side inside, … -
Poems Received in Response to an Advertised Call for a National Anthem
National Anthem / By H. W. L——, of Cambridge / BACK in the years when Phlagstaff, the Dane, was monarch …
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