Love Poems – Page 4238

Liberty Tree

IN a chariot of light from the regions of day,
The Goddess of Liberty came;
Ten thousand celestials directed the way, …

Thomas Paine
On the death of an infant

Why should we weep for thee,
Since thou hast gone unsullied back to heaven,
No stain upon thy spirit's purity, …

Anne Lynch Botta
Recollection

Soon as the gilded clouds of evening fly,
And Luna lights her taper in the sky,
The silent thought inspiring solemn scene …

Ann Eliza Bleecker English
Snow flakes.

Snow flakes.
I counted till they danced so
Their slippers leaped the town, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrows of Werther

Werther had a love for Charlotte
Such as words could never utter;
Would you know how first he met her? …

William Makepeace Thackeray English
The Sun Rising

⁠BUSY old fool, unruly Sun,
⁠Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? …

John Donne English
The Coral Insect

TOIL on! toil on! ye ephemeral train,
Who build in the tossing and treacherous main
Toil on! for the wisdom of man ye mock, …

Lydia Sigourney English
To the Nightingale

WHENCE is it, that amaz'd I hear
From yonder wither'd spray,
This foremost morn of all the year, …

William Cowper
The Universal Prayer

Father of all! In every age,
In ev'ry clime ador'd,
By saint, by savage, and by sage, …

Alexander Pope English
Unreturning

'T was such a little, little boat
That toddled down the bay !
'T was such a gallant, gallant sea …

Emily Dickinson English