Love Poems – Page 2794
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Far-Away
As chimes that flow o’er shining seas / When Morn alights on meads of May, / Faint voices fill the western breeze … -
Time the Supreme
From “Night Thoughts,” Night I. / THE BELL strikes one: we take no note of time, / But from its loss. To give it, then, a tongue, … -
Three Days
So much to do: so little done! / Ah! yesternight I saw the sun / Sink beamless down the vaulted gray,— … -
Procrastination
From “Night Thoughts,” Night I. / BE wise to-day; ’t is madness to defer; / Next day the fatal precedent will plead; … -
The Ballad of Dead Ladies
From the French by Dante Gabriel Rossetti / TELL me now in what hidden way is / Lady Flora the lovely Roman? … -
The Old Year and the New
Last night at twelve, amid the knee-deep snows, / A child of Time accepted his repose,— / The eighteen hundred fifty-sixth of grace, … -
The Death of the old Year
Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, / And the winter winds are wearily sighing: / Toll ye the church-bell sad and slow, … -
A Fancy from Fontenelle
“De mémoires de Roses on n’a point vu mourir le Jardinier.” / THE ROSE in the garden slipped her bud, / And she laughed in the pride of her youthful blood, … -
What is the Grass?
From “The Song of Myself” / A CHILD said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; / How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. … -
The Ascent of Man
He stood upon the earth, and turned / To gaze on sky and land and sea, / While in his ear the whisper burned, …
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