Love Poems – Page 4060

Ireland

A Seaside Portrait
A GREAT, still Shape, alone,
She sits (her harp has fallen) on the sand, …

John James Piatt English
After Death

Shall mine eyes behold thy glory, O my country? Shall mine eyes behold thy glory?
Or shall the darkness close around them, ere the sun-blaze breaks at last upon thy story?
When the nations ope for thee their queenly circle, as a sweet new sister hail thee, …

Frances Isabel Parnell English
America

O Mother of a mighty race,
Yet lovely in thy youthful grace!
The elder dames, thy haughty peers, …

William Cullen Bryant English
America

my country, ’t is of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing; …

Samuel Francis Smith English
“Old Ironsides”

[On the proposed breaking up of the United States frigate “Constitution”]
AY, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high, …

Oliver Wendell Holmes English
Patience

From “Poems of Freedom”
BE patient, O be patient! Put your ear against the earth;
Listen there how noiselessly the germ o’ the seed has birth; …

William James Linton English
To Althea from Prison

When Love with unconfinèd wings
Hovers within my gates,
And by divine Althea brings …

Richard Lovelace English
New England’s Dead

New England’s dead! New England’s dead!
On every hill they lie;
On every field of strife, made red …

Isaac McLellan English
Laus Deo!

[On hearing the bells ring on the passage of the Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery.]
IT is done!
Clang of bell and roar of gun …

John Greenleaf Whittier English
Sir Patrick Spens

[A confused echo of the Scotch expedition which should have brought the Maid of Norway to Scotland, about 1285.]
THE KING sits in Dunfermline town,
Drinking the blude-red wine, …

Anonymous English