Love Poems – Page 4032

Love and Death

Alas! that men must see
Love, before Death!
Else they content might be …

Margaret Deland English
Cloistered

Seal thou the window! Yea, shut out the light
And bar my door to all the airs of spring.
Yet in my cell, concealed from curious sight, …

Alice Brown English
Life

What, comrade of a night,
No sooner meet than fight?
Before the word, the blow? …

Alice Brown English
Sleep

withdraw thee, soul, from strife.
Enter thine unseen bark,
And sail across the dark, …

Alice Brown English
Quatrains

The bedouins OF THE SKIES
YON clouds that roam the deserts of the air,
On wind-swift barbs, o’er many an azure plain, …

James Benjamin Kenyon English
Stella

Home from the observatory,
Now I take her on my knee,
And I tell her all the glory …

Charles Henry Crandall English
The Scarlet Tanager

A flame went flitting through the wood;
The neighboring birds all understood
Here was a marvel of their kind; …

Mary Augusta Mason English
The Mocking-Bird

The name thou wearest does thee grievous wrong.
No mimic thou! That voice is thine alone!
The poets sing but strains of Shakespeare’s song; …

Henry Jerome Stockard English
Fate

Two shall be born the whole wide world apart;
And speak in different tongues, and have no thought
Each of the other’s being, and no heed; …

Susan Marr Spalding English
Death

Calm death, God of crossed hands and passionless eyes,
Thou God that never heedest gift nor prayer,
Men blindly call thee cruel, unaware …

George Pellew English