Love Poems – Page 3143
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The Meeting
The Elder folk shook hands at last, / Down seat by seat the signal passed. / To simple ways like ours unused, … -
The Memory of the Heart
If stores of dry and learnèd lore we gain, / We keep them in the memory of the brain; / Names, things, and facts,—whate’er we knowledge call,— … -
The Men behind the Guns
A Cheer and salute for the Admiral, and here ’s to the Captain bold, / And never forget the Commodore’s debt when the deeds of might are told! / They stand to the deck through the battle’s wreck when the great shells roar and screech— … -
The Merchant of the Picturesque
The Merchant of the Picturesque / A Counter has and sales / But is within or negative … -
The Message
Ye little birds that sit and sing / Amidst the shady valleys, / And see how Phillis sweetly walks … -
The Metal Checks
[the scene is a bare room, with two shaded windows at the back, and a fireplace between them with a fire burning low. The room contains a few plain chairs, and a rough wooden table on which are piled many small wooden trays. THE COUNTER, who is Death, sits at the table. He wears a loose gray robe… -
The Milking-Maid
The Year stood at its equinox, / And bluff the North was blowing, / A bleat of lambs came from the flocks, … -
The Milkmaid
A Milkmaid, who poised a full pail on her head, / Thus mused on her prospects in life, it is said: / “Let me see,—I should think that this milk will procure … -
The Milkmaid’s Song
Turn, turn, for my cheeks they burn, / Turn by the dale, my Harry! / Fill pail, fill pail, … -
The Miller's Daughter
It is the miller's daughter, / And she is grown so dear, so dear, / That I would be the jewel …
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