Love Poems – Page 4022

The Poet

Thou, who wouldst wear the name
Of poet mid thy brethren of mankind,
And clothe in words of flame …

William Cullen Bryant English
Song

We break the glass, whose sacred wine
To some beloved health we drain,
Lest future pledges, less divine, …

Edward Coate Pinkney English
New England

Clime of the brave! the high heart’s home,
Laved by the wild and stormy sea!
Thy children, in this far-off land, …

George Denison Prentice English
Merlin

Thy trivial harp will never please
Or fill my craving ear;
Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson English
Ode

O tenderly the haughty day
Fills his blue urn with fire;
One morn is in the mighty heaven, …

Ralph Waldo Emerson English
Sonnets

1
when first I looked into thy glorious eyes,
And saw, with their unearthly beauty pained, …

Sarah Helen Power Whitman English
Endymion

The rising moon has hid the stars;
Her level rays, like golden bars,
Lie on the landscape green, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
Dante

Tuscan, that wanderest through the realms of gloom,
With thoughtful pace, and sad, majestic eyes,
Stern thoughts and awful from thy soul arise, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
Nature

As a fond mother, when the day is o’er,
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
Half willing, half reluctant to be led, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
The Farewell

gone, gone,—sold and gone,
To the rice-swamp dank and lone.
Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings, …

John Greenleaf Whittier English