Love Poems – Page 3115

• The Grave of Sophocles

  From the Greek by William M. Hardinge / TENDERLY, ivy, on Sophocles’ grave—right tenderly—twine / Garlanding over the mound network of delicate green. …

  by Simmias of Rhodes

• The Grave-Yard

  From “a Fable for Critics” / LET us glance for a moment, ’t is well worth the pains, / And note what an average grave-yard contains; …

  by James Russell Lowell

• The Gravedigger

  Oh, the shambling sea is a sexton old, / And well his work is done. / With an equal grave for lord and knave, …

  by Bliss Carman

• The Graveyard Rabbit

  In the white moonlight, where the willow waves, / He halfway gallops among the graves— / A tiny ghost in the gloom and gleam, …

  by Frank Lebby Stanton

• The Great Breath

  Its edges foam'd with amethyst and rose, / Withers once more the old blue flower of day: / There where the ether like a diamond glows, …

• The Great Calamity

  MacFierce'un came to Whiskeyhurst / When summer days were hot, / And bided there wi' Jock MacThirst, …

• The Great Hunt

  I can not tell you now; / When the wind’s drive and whirl / Blow me along no longer, …

  by Carl Sandburg

• The Great Man

  I cannot always feel his greatness. / Sometimes he walks beside me, step by step, / And paces slowly in the ways— …

  by Eunice Tietjens

• The Great Misgiving

  'not ours,' say some, 'the thought of death to dread; / Asking no heaven, we fear no fabled hell: / Life is a feast, and we have banqueted— …

  by William Watson

• The Green Isle of Lovers

  They say that, afar in the land of the west, / Where the bright golden sun sinks in glory to rest, / Mid ferns where the hunter ne’er ventured to tread, …

  by Robert Charles Sands

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