Love Poems – Page 3141

• The Man with the Hoe

  Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans / Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, / The emptiness of ages in his face, …

  by Edwin Markham

• The Manner of its Death

  The Manner of its Death / When Certain it must die — / 'Tis deemed a privilege to choose — …

• The Manor Lord

  Beside the landsman knelt a dame, / And slowly pushed the pages o’er; / Still by the hearth-fire’s spending flame …

  by George Houghton

• The Mariner’s Dream

  In slumbers of midnight the sailor-boy lay; / His hammock swung loose at the sport of the wind; / But watch-worn and weary, his cares flew away, …

  by William Dimond

• The Mariposa Lily

  Insect or blossom? Fragile, fairy thing, / Poised upon slender tip, and quivering / To flight! a flower of the fields of air; …

  by Ina Coolbrith

• The Married Lover

  Why, having won her, do I woo? / Because her spirit's vestal grace / Provokes me always to pursue, …

  by Coventry Patmore

• The Marseillaise

  Anonymous translation from the French / YE sons of freedom, wake to glory! / Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise! …

  by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

• The Marshes of Glynn

  Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven / With intricate shades of the vines that myriad-cloven / Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs,— …

  by Sidney Lanier

• The Martyr Poets — did not tell —

  The Martyr Poets — did not tell — / But wrought their Pang in syllable — / That when their mortal name be numb — …

• The Martyrs’ Hymn

  From the German by William Johnson Fox / FLUNG to the heedless winds, / Or on the waters cast, …

  by Martin Luther

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