Love Poems – Page 4052

The Snow-Storm

The Great soft downy snow-storm like a cloak
Descends to wrap the lean world head to feet;
It gives the dead another winding-sheet, …

Ethelwyn Wetherald English
“The Snowing of the Pines”

Softer than silence, stiller than still air
Float down from high pine-boughs the slender leaves.
The forest floor its annual boon receives …

Thomas Wentworth Higginson English
Winter

The Day had been a calm and sunny day,
And tinged with amber was the sky at even;
The fleecy clouds at length had rolled away, …

John Howard Bryant English
A Farewell

Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea
Thy tribute wave deliver:
No more by thee my steps shall be, …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
The Mariposa Lily

Insect or blossom? Fragile, fairy thing,
Poised upon slender tip, and quivering
To flight! a flower of the fields of air; …

Ina Donna Coolbrith English
Flowers

I Will not have the mad Clytie,
Whose head is turned by the sun;
The tulip is a courtly quean, …

Thomas Hood English
To the Cuckoo

O Blithe new-comer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice.
A cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, …

William Wordsworth English
To the Skylark

HAIL to thee, blithe spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from heaven, or near it, …

Percy Bysshe Shelley English
The Little Beach Bird

Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea,
Why takest thou its melancholy voice?
Why with that brooding cry …

Richard Henry Dana, Sr. English
The Sandpiper

Across the narrow beach we flit,
One little sandpiper and I;
And fast I gather, bit by bit, …

Celia Laighton Thaxter English