Love Poems – Page 4031

Sleep

In a tangled, scented hollow,
On a bed of crimson roses,
Stilly now the wind reposes; …

Lewis Frank Tooker English
Anne

Her eyes be like the violets,
Ablow in Sudbury lane;
When she doth smile, her face is sweet …

Lizette Woodworth Reese English
Daffodils

Fathered by March, the daffodils are here.
First, all the air grew keen with yesterday,
And once a thrush from out some hollow gray …

Lizette Woodworth Reese English
Tears

When i consider Life and its few years—
A wisp of fog betwixt us and the sun;
A call to battle, and the battle done …

Lizette Woodworth Reese English
Immortality

Battles nor songs can from oblivion save,
But Fame upon a white deed loves to build:
From out that cup of water Sidney gave, …

Lizette Woodworth Reese English
Thomas a Kempis

Brother of mine, good monk with cowlëd head,
Walled from that world which thou hast long since fled,
And pacing thy green close beyond the sea, …

Lizette Woodworth Reese English
Quatrains

Moonlight song OF THE MOCKING-BIRD
EACH golden note of music greets
The listening leaves, divinely stirred, …

William Hamilton Hayne English
England

I
the voice of England is a trumpet tone
When that inviolate Mother wills it so: …

George Edgar Montgomery English
Walt Whitman

He was in love with Truth and knew her near—
Her comrade, not her suppliant on the knee:
She gave him wild melodious words to be …

Harrison Smith Morris English
The Mocking-Bird

He did n’t know much music
When first he come along;
An’ all the birds went wonderin’ …

Frank Lebby Stanton English