Love Poems – Page 4056

On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been …

John Keats English
An Autograph

O’er the wet sands an insect crept
Ages ere man on earth was known—
And patient Time, while Nature slept, …

James Russell Lowell English
Art

I.
art’s use; what is it but to touch the springs
Of nature? But to hold a torch up for …

Sir Gilbert Parker English
Genius

Far out at sea—the sun was high,
While veered the wind, and flapped the sail—
We saw a snow-white butterfly …

Richard Henry Hengist Horne English
Books

For why, who writes such histories as these
Doth often bring the reader’s heart such ease,
As when they sit and see what he doth note, …

John Higgins English
Music

From “The Merchant of Venice,” Act V. Sc. 1.
LORENZO.—How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music …

William Shakespeare English
To ——

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory,—
Odors, when sweet violets sicken, …

Percy Bysshe Shelley English
Invocation

From “The Davideis”
AWAKE, awake, my Lyre!
And tell thy silent master’s humble tale …

Abraham Cowley English
“The Man with the Hoe”

Written after Seeing Millet’s World-Famous Painting
“God made man in His own image,
In the image of God made He him.” …

Edwin Markham English
Work

Let me but do my work from day to day,
In field or forest, at the desk or loom,
In roaring market-place, or tranquil room; …

Henry Van Dyke English