Love Poems – Page 3246
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To ---- VIII (Botta)
Thou dost not dwell in this dark world of ours, / Where sorrow, want, and crime, and misery reign; / Where famine stalks; where war's dread tempest lowers; … -
To ---- X (Botta)
Like the river's current rapid; / Like the lightning's flash intense; / Was the rushing, fiery torrent … -
To ----, in obscurity
In full-orbed splendor now the queen of Night, / Among the stars walks in her pride of place, / And how again we miss that flood of light … -
To ----, with flowers
Go, ye sweet messengers, / To that dim-lighted room, / Where lettered wisdom from the walls … -
To —— (Poe, 1850)
The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see / The wantonest singing birds, / Are lips — and all thy melody … -
To ————
Music, when soft voices die, / Vibrates in the memory.— / Odours, when sweet violets sicken, … -
To a Butterfly
I’ve watched you now a full half-hour, / Self-poised upon that yellow flower; / And, little Butterfly! indeed … -
To a Captive Crane
Ho, brother! Art thou prisoned too? / Is thy heart hot with restless pain? / I heard the call thy bugle blew … -
To a Caty-Did
in a branch of willow hid / Sings the evening Caty-did: / From the lofty-locust bough … -
To a Cherokee Rose
Thy one white leaf is open to the sky, / And o’er thy heart swift lights and shadows pass,— / The wooing winds seem loath to wander by, …
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