Love Poems – Page 431
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At Midnight
See, yonder, the belfry tower / That gleams in the moon’s pale light; / Or is it a ghostly flower … -
At Midsummer
The Spacious Noon enfolds me with its peace— / The affluent Midsummer wraps me round— / So still the earth and air, that scarce a sound … -
At Night
The sun is sinking over hill and sea, / Its red light fires a spectral line of shore; / Night droops upon our half-world mistily … -
At Shakespeare's Grave
Dismiss your apprehension, pseudo bard, / For no one wishes to disturb these stones, / Nor cares if here or in the outer yard … -
At the Aquarium
Serene the silver fishes glide, / Stern-lipped, and pale, and wonder-eyed! / As through the aged deeps of ocean, … -
At the Cedars
You had two girls—Baptiste— / One is Virginie— / Hold hard—Baptiste! … -
At the Church-Gate
Although I enter not, / Yet round about the spot / Ofttimes I hover; … -
At the Grave of Walker
He lies low in the levelled sand, / Unsheltered from the tropic sun, / And now of all he knew not one … -
At the Hacienda
Know i not who thou mayst be / Carved upon this olive-tree,— / “Manuela of La Torre,”— … -
At the Mermaid Inn
At table yonder sits the man we seek, / Beside the ingle, where the crimson flare / Reveals him through the eddying tavern reek, …
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