Love Poems – Page 4193

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

WHAT beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
'Tis she!—but why that bleeding bosom gored, …

Alexander Pope
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

The next with dirges due in sad array
Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him born.
Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, …

Thomas Gray English
For each ecstatic instant

For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio …

Emily Dickinson
A Forest Hymn

⁠ let us need the wrath
Of the mad unchained elements to teach
Who rules them. Be it ours to meditate, …

William Cullen Bryant
Heart! We will forget him!

Heart! We will forget him!
You and I — tonight!
You may forget the warmth he gave — …

Emily Dickinson English
Heraclitus

THEY told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
I wept as I remember'd how often you and I …

George Edward Lynch Cotton English
Home! Sweet Home!

'Mid pleasures and Palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, …

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The House on the Hill

They are all gone away,
The House is shut and still,
There is nothing more to say. …

author:Edwin Arlington Robinson English
I gave myself to Him —

I gave myself to Him —
And took Himself, for Pay,
The solemn contract of a Life …

Emily Dickinson English
In Vain

And were you lost, I would be,
Though my name
Rang loudest …

Elizabeth Chase Allen English