Love Poems – Page 3119

• The Heavens Are Our Riddle

  The Heavens are our riddle; and the sea, / Forested earth, the grassy rustling plain, / Snows, rains, and thunders. Yea, and even we …

  by Herbert Bates

• The Heaviest Cross of All

  I ’ve borne full many a sorrow, I ’ve suffered many a loss— / But now, with a strange, new anguish, I carry this last dread cross; / For of this be sure, my dearest, whatever thy life befall, …

  by Katherine Eleanor Conway

• The Heaving of the Lead

  For England when with favoring gale / Our gallant ship up channel steered, / And, scudding under easy sail, …

  by Charles Dibdin

• The Hebrew Nation did not write it

  * * * / The Hebrew Nation did not write it. / Avarice & Chastity did shite it. [2]

• The Height of the Ridiculous

  I wrote some lines once on a time / In wondrous merry mood, / And thought, as usual, men would say …

  by Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Hemlock

  To satin races he is nought; / But children on the Don / Beneath his tabernacles play, …

• The Hen

  Anonymous translation from the German / A FAMOUS hen ’s my story’s theme, / Which ne’er was known to tire …

  by Matthias Claudius

• The Heritage

  The Rich man’s son inherits lands, / And piles of brick, and stone, and gold, / And he inherits soft, white hands, …

  by James Russell Lowell

• The Hermit

  From “The Vicar of Wakefield” / “TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, / And guide my lonely way …

  by Oliver Goldsmith

• The Hero of the Commune

  “garÇon! you—you / Snared along with this cursed crew? / (Only a child, and yet so bold, …

  by Margaret Junkin Preston

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