Love Poems – Page 4026

Sonnets

In hades
then saw I, with gray eyes fulfilled of rest,
And lulling voice, a woman sweet, and she,— …

Anna Callender Brackett English
Song

We sail toward evening’s lonely star
That trembles in the tender blue;
One single cloud, a dusky bar, …

Celia Thaxter English
Sonnets

Enamoured architect OF AIRY RHYME
ENAMOURED architect of airy rhyme,
Build as thou wilt; heed not what each man says: …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
Memory

My mind lets go a thousand things,
Like dates of wars and deaths of kings,
And yet recalls the very hour— …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
Quatrains

Masks
black tragedy lets slip her grim disguise
And shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
If

Yes, death is at the bottom of the cup,
And every one that lives must drink it up;
And yet between the sparkle at the top …

William Dean Howells English
Vision

Within a poor man’s squalid home I stood:
The one bare chamber, where his work-worn wife
Above the stove and wash-tub passed her life, …

William Dean Howells English
Shakespeare

I wish that I could have my wish to-night,
For all the fairies should assist my flight
Back into the abyss of years; …

Henry Ames Blood English
Emerson

We took it to the woods, we two,
The book well worn and brown,
To read his words where stirring leaves …

Mary Mapes Dodge English
Christine

The beauty of the northern dawns,
Their pure, pale light is thine;
Yet all the dreams of tropic nights …

John Hay English