Love Poems – Page 2518
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On a Portrait of Columbus
Was this his face, and these the finding eyes / That plucked a new world from the rolling seas? / Who, serving Christ, whom most he sought to please, … -
On a Portrait of Wordsworth
By B. R. Haydon / WORDSWORTH upon Helvellyn! Let the cloud / Ebb audibly along the mountain-wind, … -
On a Travelling Speculator
On scent of game from town to town he flew, / The soldier’s curse pursued him on his way; / Care in his eye, and anguish on his brow, … -
On a Virtuous Young Gentlewomanthat died suddenly
She who to Heaven more Heaven doth annex, / Whose lowest thought was above all our sex, / Accounted nothing death but t' be reprieved, … -
On a whithered branch
”On a whithered branch / A crow is sitting / This autumn eve.” -
On an Infant
Which Died before Baptism / “BE, rather than be called, a child of God,” / Death whispered!—with assenting nod, … -
On an Infant dying as soon as born
I SAW where in the shroud did lurk / A curious frame of Nature's work; / A floweret crush'd in the bud, … -
On an Intaglio Head of Minerva
Beneath the warrior’s helm, behold / The flowing tresses of the woman! / Minerva, Pallas, what you will— … -
On an Old Muff
Time has a magic wand! / What is this meets my hand, / Moth-eaten, mouldy, and … -
On Anne Allen
The Wind blew keenly from the Western sea, / And drove the dead leaves slanting from the tree— / Vanity of vanities, the Preacher saith— …
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