Love Poems – Page 2737

• To a Mouse

  On Turning Her up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785 / WEE, sleekit, cowerin’, timorous beastie, / O, what a panic ’s in thy breastie! …

  by Robert Burns

• The Housekeeper

  The Frugal snail, with forecast of repose, / Carries his house with him where’er he goes; / Peeps out,—and if there comes a shower of rain, …

  by Charles Lamb

• Remonstrance with the Snails

  YE little snails, / With slippery tails, / Who noiselessly travel …

  by Anonymous

• The Lion’s Ride

  Anonymous translation from the German / THE LION is the desert’s king; through his domain so wide / Right swiftly and right royally this night he means to ride. …

  by Ferdinand Freiligrath

• Fodder-Time

  From the German by John Eliot Bowen / From “Songs of Toil” / HOW sweet the manger smells! The cows all listen …

  by Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania

• The Ox

  From the Italian by Frank Sewall / From the “Poesie” / I LOVE thee, pious ox; a gentle feeling …

  by Giosuè Carducci

• Folding the Flocks

  Shepherds all, and maidens fair, / Fold your flocks up; for the air / ’Gins to thicken, and the sun …

  by Francis Beaumont

• Beth Gêlert

  The Spearmen heard the bugle sound, / And cheerily smiled the morn; / And many a brach, and many a hound, …

  by William Robert Spencer

• To a Dog’s Memory

  The Gusty morns are here, / When all the reeds ride low with level spear; / And on such nights as lured us far of yore, …

  by Louise Imogen Guiney

• Helvellyn

  [In the spring of 1805, a young gentleman of talents, and of a most amiable disposition, perished by losing his way on the mountain Helvellyn. His remains were not discovered till three months afterwards, when they were found guarded by a faithful terrier, his constant attendant during frequent s…

  by Sir Walter Scott

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