Love Poems – Page 4064

“O Captain! my Captain!”

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, …

Walt Whitman English
Gifts

“o World-god, give me Wealth!” the Egyptian cried.
His prayer was granted. High as heaven behold
Palace and Pyramid; the brimming tide …

Emma Lazarus English
England

From “The Timepiece”: “The Task,” Book. II.
ENGLAND, with all thy faults, I love thee still,—
My country! and, while yet a nook is left …

William Cowper English
Echo

I Asked of Echo, t’ other day,
(Whose words are few and often funny,)
What to a novice she could say …

John Godfrey Saxe English
The Sea

She was rich and of high degree;
A poor and unknown artist he.
“Paint me,” she said, “a view of the sea.” …

Eva L. Ogden English
Epitaph

For the Tombstone Erected over the Marquis of Anglesea’s Leg, Lost at Waterloo
HERE rests, and let no saucy knave
Presume to sneer and laugh, …

George Canning English
Jim

Say there! P’r’aps
Some on you chaps
Might know Jim Wild? …

Bret Harte English
The Society upon the Stanislaus

I Reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James:
I am not up to small deceit or any sinful games;
And I ’ll tell in simple language what I know about the row …

Bret Harte English
A Conservative

The Garden beds I wandered by
One bright and cheerful morn,
When I found a new-fledged butterfly, …

Charlotte Perkins Gilman English
My Love

I Only knew she came and went Lowell.
Like troutlets in a pool; Hood.
She was a phantom of delight, Wordsworth. …

Anonymous English