Love Poems – Page 4036

Youth

If I must die,
The earth is inarticulate to sing
The dirge I crave: …

George Cabot Lodge English
Prelude

WORDS, words,
Ye are like birds.
Would I might fold you, …

Josephine Preston Peabody English
The Mocking-Bird

List to that bird! His song—what poet pens it?
Brigand of birds, he ’s stolen every note!
Prince though of thieves—hark! how the rascal spends it! …

Ednah Proctor (Clarke) Hayes English
Sonnets

On The DEATH OF A METAPHYSICIAN
UNHAPPY dreamer, who outwinged in flight
The pleasant region of the things I love, …

George Santayana English
Quatrains

A Diamond
look how it sparkles, see it greet
With laughing light the ambient air; …

Robert Loveman English
Whither

Agnes, thou child of harmony, now fled
From scenes once bright-illumined with thy smile,
So innocent and kind, free from the guile …

Philip Becker Goetz English
Hey Nonny No

There is a race from eld descent,
Of heaven by earth in joyous mood,
Before the world grew wise and bent …

Marguerite Merington English
The Baby

Where did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into the here.
Where did you get your eyes so blue? …

George MacDonald English
Lullaby

From “The Princess”
SWEET and low, sweet and low,
Wind of the western sea, …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
Cradle Song

Sleep, little baby of mine,
Night and the darkness are near,
But Jesus looks down …

Anonymous English