Love Poems – Page 4028

Songs

I
not from the whole wide world I chose thee,
Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea! …

Richard Watson Gilder English
The Sonnet

What is a sonnet? ’T is the pearly shell
That murmurs of the far-off murmuring sea;
A precious jewel carved most curiously; …

Richard Watson Gilder English
A Child

Her voice was like the song of birds;
Her eyes were like the stars;
Her little waving hands were like …

Richard Watson Gilder English
Absolution

I
priest of God, unto thee I come;
Day doth dawn, though the mist lies deep. …

Edward Willard Watson English
Walt Whitman

Darkness and death? Nay, Pioneer, for thee
The day of deeper vision has begun;
There is no darkness for the central sun …

Francis Howard Williams English
Song

a bird in my bower
Sat calling, a-calling;
A bird answered low from the garden afar. …

Francis Howard Williams English
In the Dark

The fields were silent, and the woodland drear,
The moon had set, and clouds hid all the stars;
And blindly, when a footfall met my ear, …

Mary Thacher Higginson English
Remembrance

I think that we retain of our dead friends
And absent ones no general portraiture;
That perfect memory does not long endure, …

John Henry Boner English
Evolution

Out of the dusk a shadow,
Then, a spark;
Out of the cloud a silence, …

John Banister Tabb English
Indian Summer

No more the battle or the chase
The phantom tribes pursue,
But each in its accustomed place …

John Banister Tabb English