Love Poems – Page 4037

Cradle Song

From “Bitter-Sweet”
WHAT is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt; …

Josiah Gilbert Holland English
Letty’s Globe

When Letty had scarce passed her third glad year,
And her young, artless words began to flow,
One day we gave the child a colored sphere …

Charles Tennyson Turner English
A Portrait

“One name is Elizabeth.”
—BEN JONSON.
I WILL paint her as I see her. …

Elizabeth Barrett Browning English
“She came and went”

As a twig trembles, which a bird
Lights on to sing, then leaves unbent,
So is my memory thrilled and stirred;— …

James Russell Lowell English
“Woodman, spare that tree”

Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me, …

George Pope Morris English
A Little Dutch Garden

I Passed by a garden, a little Dutch garden,
Where useful and pretty things grew,—
Heart’s-ease and tomatoes, and pinks and potatoes, …

Harriet Whitney Durbin English
Finis

My story ’s ended,
My spoon is bended:
If you don’t like it, …

Anonymous English
A Farewell

My fairest child, I have no song to give you;
No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray;
Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you …

Charles Kingsley English
My Mother’s Bible

This book is all that ’s left me now,—
Tears will unbidden start,—
With faltering lip and throbbing brow …

George Pope Morris English
Youth

From “Youth and Age”
VERSE, a breeze ’mid blossoms straying,
Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee— …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge English