Love Poems – Page 4023

America

My country, ’t is of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing; …

Samuel Francis Smith English
To the Mocking-Bird

Thou glorious mocker of the world! I hear
Thy many voices ringing through the glooms
Of these green solitudes; and all the clear, …

Albert Pike English
To Sleep

Come to me, angel of the weary hearted!
Since they my loved ones, breathed upon by thee,
Unto thy realms unreal have departed, …

Frances Sargent Osgood English
Song

Your heart is a music-box, dearest!
With exquisite tunes at command,
Of melody sweetest and clearest, …

Frances Sargent Osgood English
Watching

Sleep, love, sleep!
The dusty day is done.
Lo! from afar the freshening breezes sweep …

Emily Chubbuck Judson English
Requiem

Breathe, trumpets, breathe
Slow notes of saddest wailing,—
Sadly responsive peal, ye muffled drums; …

George Lunt English
Dies Irae

Day of wrath, that day of burning,
Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,
All the world to ashes turning. …

Abraham Coles English
Song

’t is said that absence conquers love!
But, oh! believe it not;
I ’ve tried, alas! its power to prove, …

Frederick William Thomas English
Dirge

Softly!
she is lying
With her lips apart; …

Charles Gamage Eastman English
Under the Violets

Under the violets, blue and sweet,
Where low the willow droops and weeps,
Where children tread with timid feet, …

Edward Young English