Love Poems – Page 4054

Tam O’ Shanter

A Tale
“Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke.”
—GAWIN DOUGLAS. …

Robert Burns English
The Sirens’ Song

From the “Inner Temple Masque”
STEER hither, steer your wingèd pines,
All beaten mariners: …

William Browne English
Quatrains

Moonlight Song OF THE MOCKING-BIRD
EACH golden note of music greets
The listening leaves, divinely stirred, …

William Hamilton Hayne English
To-morrow

From “Irene”
TO-MORROW’S action! can that hoary wisdom,
Borne down with years, still doat upon to-morrow! …

Samuel Johnson English
Ave atque Vale

Farewell, my Youth! for now we needs must part,
For here the paths divide;
Here hand from hand must sever, heart from heart,— …

Rosamund Marriott Watson English
The Approach of Age

Sonnet Xii.
when I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; …

William Shakespeare English
The Petrified Fern

In a valley, centuries ago,
Grew a little fern-leaf, green and slender,
Veining delicate and fibres tender; …

Mary L. Bolles Branch English
Life

My life is like the summer rose,
That opens to the morning sky,
But, ere the shades of evening close, …

Richard Henry Wilde English
Life

I Made a posie, while the day ran by:
“Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie
My life within this band.” …

George Herbert English
Life

Life, like a romping school-boy full of glee,
Doth bear us on his shoulders for a time:
There is no path too steep for him to climb, …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox English