Love Poems – Page 4034

Proem

If this little world to-night
Suddenly should fall through space
In a hissing, headlong flight, …

Oliver Herford English
A Mood

The wind exultant swept
Through the new leaves overhead,
Till at once my pulses leapt …

Winifred Howells English
Envoy

I
whose furthest footstep never strayed
Beyond the village of his birth …

Richard Hovey English
Love and Life

“give me a fillet, Love,” quoth I,
“To bind my Sweeting’s heart to me,
So ne’er a chance of earth or sky …

Julie Mathilde Lippmann English
The Pines

Throughout the soft and sunlit day
The pennoned pines, in strict array,
Stand grim and silent, gaunt and gray. …

Julie Mathilde Lippmann English
Proem

There is no rhyme that is half so sweet
As the song of the wind in the rippling wheat;
There is no metre that ’s half so fine …

Madison Cawein English
Death

Through some strange sense of sight or touch
I find what all have found before,
The presence I have feared so much, …

Madison Cawein English
Quatrains

The wind IN THE PINES
WHEN winds go organing through the pines
On hill and headland, darkly gleaming, …

Madison Cawein English
Dirge

What shall her silence keep
Under the sun?
Here, where the willows weep …

Madison Cawein English
Separation

There be many kinds of parting—yes, I know
Some with fond, grieving eyes that overflow,
Some with brave hands that strengthen as they go; …

Martha Gilbert Dickinson English