Love Poems – Page 4051

Home Thoughts from Abroad

I.
oh, to be in England now that April’s there
And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware, …

Robert Browning English
May Morning

Warm, wild, rainy wind, blowing fitfully,
Stirring dreamy breakers on the slumberous May sea,
What shall fail to answer thee? What thing shall withstand …

Celia Laighton Thaxter English
Spring

Again the violet of our early days
Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun,
And kindles into fragrance at his blaze; …

Ebenezer Elliott English
Cuckoo Song

English: Thirteenth Century
SUMER 1 is icumen in.
Lhude sing cuccu. …

Anonymous English
Spring

From “In Memoriam”
LXXXII.
DIP down upon the northern shore, …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
The Plough

Above yon sombre swell of land
Thou seest the dawn’s grave orange hue,
With one pale streak like yellow sand, …

Richard Henry Hengist Horne English
Before the Rain

We knew it would rain, for all the morn
A spirit on slender ropes of mist
Was lowering its golden buckets down …

Thomas Bailey Aldrich English
The Stag Hunt

From “The Seasons: Autumn”
THE STAG too, singled from the herd where long
He ranged, the branching monarch of the shades, …

James Thomson English
Winter

From the German by Charles Timothy Brooks
A Song to Be Sung behind the Stove
OLD Winter is the man for me— …

Matthias Claudius English
Snow-Flakes

Whenever a snow-flake leaves the sky,
It turns and turns to say “Good-bye!
Good-bye, dear clouds, so cool and gray!” …

Mary Mapes Dodge English