Love Poems – Page 2780

• The Holly-Tree

  O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see / The holly-tree? / The eye that contemplates it well perceives …

  by Robert Southey

• The Arab to the Palm

  Next to thee, O fair gazelle, / O Beddowee girl, beloved so well; / Next to the fearless Nedjidee, …

  by Bayard Taylor

• The Palm-Tree

  Is it the palm, the cocoa-palm, / On the Indian Sea, by the isles of balm? / Or is it a ship in the breezeless calm? …

  by John Greenleaf Whittier

• The Grape-Vine Swing

  Lithe and long as the serpent train, / Springing and clinging from tree to tree, / Now darting upward, now down again, …

  by William Gilmore Simms

• Among the Redwoods

  Farewell to such a world! Too long I press / The crowded pavement with unwilling feet. / Pity makes pride, and hate breeds hatefulness, …

  by Edward Rowland Sill

• Flowers

  Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, / One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, / When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, …

  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The Use of Flowers

  God might have bade the earth bring forth / Enough for great and small, / The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, …

  by Mary Howitt

• Hymn to the Flowers

  Day-stars! that ope your frownless eyes to twinkle / From rainbow galaxies of earth’s creation, / And dew-drops on her lonely altars sprinkle …

  by Horace Smith

• The Life of Flowers

  When hath wind or rain / Borne hard upon weak plant that wanted me, / And I (however they might bluster round) …

  by Walter Savage Landor

• The Early Primrose

  Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire, / Whose modest form, so delicately fine, / Was nursed in whirling storms …

  by Henry Kirke White

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