Love Poems – Page 4044

• Compensation

  Tears wash away the atoms in the eye
  That smarted for a day;
  Rain-clouds that spoiled the splendors of the sky …

  Christopher Pearse Cranch English

• Life

  We are born; we laugh; we weep;
  We love; we droop; we die!
  Ah! wherefore do we laugh or weep? …

  Bryan Waller Procter English

• The Dead

  The Dead abide with us! Though stark and cold
  Earth seems to grip them, they are with us still:
  They have forged our chains of being for good or ill; …

  Mathilde Blind English

• The Morning-Glory

  We wreathed about our darling’s head
  The morning-glory bright;
  Her little face looked out beneath …

  Maria English

• “The Unillumined Verge”

  To a Friend Dying
  THEY tell you that Death ’s at the turn of the road,
  That under the shade of a cypress you ’ll find him, …

  Robert Bridges English

• Lament of the Irish Emigrant

  I ’m sittin’ on the stile, Mary,
  Where we sat side by side
  On a bright May mornin’ long ago, …

  Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin English

• Grief

  From “Hamlet,” Act I. Sc. 2.
  QUEEN.—Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off,
  And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. …

  William Shakespeare English

• Après

  Down, down, Ellen, my little one,
  Climbing so tenderly up to my knee;
  Why should you add to the thoughts that are taunting me, …

  Arthur Joseph Munby English

• Awakening

  Down to the borders of the silent land
  He goes with halting feet;
  He dares not trust; he cannot understand …

  Washington Gladden English

• The Land o’ the Leal

  I ’m wearing awa’, Jean,
  Like snaw when it ’s thaw, Jean;
  I ’m wearing awa’, …

  Carolina, Lady Nairne English

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