Love Poems – Page 4033

Quatrains

A quatrain
hark at the lips of this pink whorl of shell
And you shall hear the ocean’s surge and roar: …

Frank Dempster Sherman English
Genesis

Did chaos form,—and water, air, and fire,
Rocks, trees, the worm, work toward Humanity,—
That Man at last, beneath the churchyard spire, …

John Hall Ingham English
Icarus

’t is something from that tangle to have won;
’T is something to have matched the wildbird’s flight;
’T is something to have soared and touched the sun. …

Harry Lyman Koopman English
A Farewell

Good-by: nay, do not grieve that it is over—
The perfect hour;
That the winged joy, sweet honey-loving rover, …

Harriet Monroe English
Sorrow

O thorn-crowned Sorrow, pitiless and stern,
I sit alone with broken heart, my head
Low bowed, keeping long vigil with my dead. …

Katrina Trask English
Love

O power of Love, O wondrous mystery!
How is my dark illumined by thy light,
That maketh morning of my gloomy night, …

Katrina Trask English
At Last

Beyond the bourn of mortal death and birth,
Two lovers—parted sorrowing on earth—
Met in the land of dim and ghostly space. …

Katrina Trask English
Solitude

It is the bittern’s solemn cry
Far out upon the lonely moors,
Where steel-gray pools reflect the sky, …

Frederick Peterson English
Songs

Fear
there is a sound I would not hear,
Although it music’s self might be; …

Langdon Elwyn Mitchell English
Song

Thy face I have seen as one seeth
A face in a dream,
Soft drifting before me as drifteth …

Sophie Jewett English