Love Poems – Page 4027

What the Bullet Sang

O joy of creation
To be!
O rapture to fly …

Francis Bret Harte English
Silence

Inaudible move day and night,
And noiseless grows the flower;
Silent are pulsing wings of light, …

John Lancaster Spalding English
Silence

Come, silence, thou sweet reasoner,
Lay thy soft hand on all that stir—
On grass and shrub and tree and flower, …

James Herbert Morse English
Columbus

Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind the Gates of Hercules;
Before him not the ghost of shores, …

Joaquin Miller English
The Stirrup-Cup

Death, thou ’rt a cordial old and rare:
Look how compounded, with what care
Time got his wrinkles reaping thee …

Sidney Lanier English
The Bride

“you know, my friends, with what a brave carouse
I made a second marriage in my house,—
Divorced old barren Reason from my bed …

Ambrose Bierce English
A Farewell

I put thy hand aside, and turn away:
Why should I blame the slight and fickle heart
That cannot bravely go, nor boldly stay, …

Mary Ainge De Vere English
Sonnets

An open SECRET
WOULD the lark sing the sweeter if he knew
A thousand hearts hung breathless on his lay? …

Caroline Atherton Mason English
Quatrains

Time
time has no flight—’t is we who speed along;
The days and nights are but the same as when …

Thomas Stephens Collier English
Ode

I
i am the spirit of the morning sea;
I am the awakening and the glad surprise; …

Richard Watson Gilder English