Love Poems – Page 4058

Shakespeare

From “Prologue”
[Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane, in 1747.]
WHEN Learning’s triumph o’er her barbarous foes …

Samuel Johnson English
Shakespeare

The Soul of man is larger than the sky,
Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark
Of the unfathomed centre. Like that ark, …

Hartley Coleridge English
Burns

A Poet’s Epitaph
STOP, mortal! Here thy brother lies,—
The poet of the poor. …

Ebenezer Elliott English
Burns

On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom
NO more these simple flowers belong
To Scottish maid and lover; …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
Poe’s Cottage at Fordham

Here lived the soul enchanted
By melody of song;
Here dwelt the spirit haunted …

John Henry Boner English
Emerson

Concord
“FARTHER horizons every year.”
O tossing pines, which surge and wave …

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey English
Hawthorne

HARP of New England Song,
That even in slumber trembled with the touch
Of poets who like the four winds from thee waken …

Edmund Clarence Stedman English
Hawthorne

How beautiful it was, that one bright day
In the long week of rain!
Though all its splendor could not chase away …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
Longfellow

In Memoriam
Nec turpem senectam
Degere, nec cithara carentem. …

Austin Dobson English
Chopin

I.
a Dream of interlinking hands, of feet
Tireless to spin the unseen, fairy woof …

Emma Lazarus English