Love Poems – Page 2747
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Address to the Mummy at Belzoni’s Exhibition
And thou hast walked about (how strange a story! / In Thebes’s streets three thousand years ago, / When the Memnonium was in all its glory, … -
London Bridge
Proud and lowly, beggar and lord, / Over the bridge they go; / Rags and velvet, fetter and sword, … -
The Crowded Street
Let me move slowly through the street, / Filled with an ever-shifting train, / Amid the sound of steps that beat … -
Dining
From “Lucile” / O HOUR of all hours, the most blest upon earth, / Blest hour of our dinners! … -
The Family Skeleton
From “Modern Love” / AT dinner she is hostess, I am host. / Went the feast ever cheerfuller? She keeps … -
The Epicure
From the Greek by Abraham Cowley / FILL the bowl with rosy wine! / Around our temples roses twine! … -
The Indian Weed
This Indian weed, now withered quite, / Though green at noon, cut down at night, / Shows thy decay,— … -
Smoking Spiritualized
Was this small plant for thee cut down? / So was the plant of great renown, / Which Mercy sends … -
Without and Within
Anonymous translation from the Italian / IF every man’s internal care / Were written on his brow, … -
Fame
From “An Essay on Man,” Epistle IV. / WHAT ’s fame?—a fancied life in others’ breath, / A thing beyond us, e’en before our death. …
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