Love Poems – Page 4029

The Child

I
long, long before the Babe could speak,
When he would kiss his mother’s cheek …

John Banister Tabb English
Quatrains

The bubble
why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I.
But, sprung at once to beauty’s perfect round, …

John Banister Tabb English
Sonnets

I
the sovereigns
they who create rob death of half its stings; …

Lloyd Mifflin English
Immortality

My window is the open sky,
The flower in farthest wood is mine;
I am the heir to all gone by, …

Arthur Sherburne Hardy English
Pastel

Among the priceless gems and treasures rare
Old Versailles shelters in its halls sublime,
I can recall one faded image fair, …

Francis Saltus Saltus English
America

For, o America, our country!—land
Hid in the west through centuries, till men
Through countless tyrannies could understand …

Arlo Bates English
Tennyson

How beautiful to live as thou didst live!
How beautiful to die as thou didst die,—
In moonlight of the night, without a sigh, …

Florence Earle Coates English
Songs

The world IS MINE
FOR me the jasmine buds unfold
And silver daisies star the lea, …

Florence Earle Coates English
Remembrance

Under the apple bough
Love, in a dream of leaves,
Dreamed we of love, as now,— …

George Parsons Lathrop English
After Death

When i forth fare beyond this narrow earth,
With all its metes and bounds of now and here,
And brooding clouds of ignorance and fear …

Charles Francis Richardson English