Love Poems – Page 2742
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Inscription on Melrose Abbey
The Earth goes on the earth glittering in gold, / The earth goes to the earth sooner than it wold; / The earth builds on the earth castles and towers, … -
God’s Acre
I Like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls / The burial-ground God’s-Acre! It is just; / It consecrates each grave within its walls, … -
Sleepy Hollow
No abbey’s gloom, nor dark cathedral stoops, / No winding torches paint the midnight air; / Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops … -
Greenwood Cemetery
How calm they sleep beneath the shade / Who once were weary of the strife, / And bent, like us, beneath the load … -
On a Grave at Grindelwald
Here let us leave him; for his shroud the snow, / For funeral-lamps he has the planets seven, / For a great sign the icy stair shall go … -
The Emigrant Lassie
As I came wandering down Glen Spean, / Where the braes are green and grassy, / With my light step I overtook … -
The Widow’s Mite
A WIDOW—she had only one! / A puny and decrepit son; / But, day and night, … -
“Are the children at home?”
Each day, when the glow of sunset / Fades in the western sky, / And the wee ones, tired of playing, … -
Jim’s Kids
Jim was a fisherman, up on the hill, / Over the beach lived he and his wife, / In a little house—you can see it still— … -
The May Queen
You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; / To-morrow ’ll be the happiest time of all the glad new-year,— / Of all the glad new-year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; …
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