Love Poems – Page 2798
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A Sunrise Song
Young palmer sun, that to the shining sands / Pourest thy pilgrim’s tale, discoursing still / Thy silver passages of sacred lands, … -
A California Christmas
BEHOLD where Beauty walks with Peace! / Behold where Plenty pours her horn / Of fruits, of flowers, fat increase, … -
Yussouf
A Stranger came one night to Yussouf’s tent, / Saying, “Behold one outcast and in dread, / Against whose life the bow of power is bent, … -
Beauty Unadorned
From the Latin by Goldwin Smith / From “Elegies” Book I. II. / DEAR girl, what boots it thus to dress thy hair, … -
Greatness
From “An Essay on Man,” Epistle IV. / HONOR and shame from no condition rise; / Act well your part, there all the honor lies. … -
Perseverance
From the Italian by William Wetmore Story / IN facile natures fancies quickly grow, / But such quick fancies have but little root. … -
The One White Hair
THE Wisest of the wise / Listen to pretty lies, / And love to hear them told; … -
Growing Gray
“On a l’âge de son cœur.” / —A. d’HOUDETOT. / A LITTLE more toward the light. … -
Healthful Old Age
From “As You Like It,” Act II. Sc. 2. / ADAM.—Let me be your servant; / Though I look old, yet am I strong and lusty: … -
Quack Medicines
From “The Borough” / BUT now our Quacks are gamesters, and they play / With craft and skill to ruin and betray; …
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