love poems for her

On the far hill, where all your people love you
Silent you lie,
'Neath the Scotch cross that rises there above you
Under the sky.

Stanch as its stone, the hand you held out gladly,
To meet the need
Of those who turned to you; whOnow greet sadly
What was decreed.

Deep in your heart's far innermost recesses,
You held your Own,—
Scorning all lighter loves and their caresses—
You gave alone

All that you had—and it was worth the keeping—
To those who bore

I LOVED you for your loving ways,
The ways that many did not know;
Although my heart would beat and glow
When Nations crowned you with their bays.

I loved you for the tender hand
That held my own so close and warm,
I loved you for the winning charm
That brought gay sunshine to the land.

I loved you for the heart that knew
The need of every little child;
I loved you when you turned and smiled, —
It was as though a fresh wind blew.

I loved you for your loving ways,

I SAW Sleep stand by an enchanted wood,
Thick lashes drooping o'er her heavy eyes:
Leaning against a flower-cupped tree she stood,
The night air gently breathed with slumbrous sighs.
Such cloak of silence o'er the world was spread,
As on Nile sands enshrouds the mighty dead.

About her birds were dumb, and blooms were bowed,
And a thick heavy sweetness filled the air;
White robed she seemed; and hidden as in a cloud,
A star-like jewel in her raven hair.
Downward to earth her cold torch would she turn

Faith , linnets are a throuble, lad;
They must be screened an' fed,
An' sunned beyont your cabin door,
An' carried back to bed!

Faith, love it is a burthen, gerrl;
'Tis iver give an' take;
Aye, knowin' how ye give too much
An' niver count the ache!

Och, childer,' ma'am, are worrisome,
An' fret an' throuble fall
On wimmen whin their childer' come;
They have no peace at all!

But song an' love an' childer', faith,
These things you're gettin' free,
These things you've held to pest ye so,

They died for love and beauty,
Those heroes debonnair;
They died for faith and duty
To make the earth more fair.

We'll live, that love and beauty
May evermore abide;
We'll live the faith and duty
For which our heroes died.

I SEE my love in every little child
Whose eyes meet mine with laughter in their blue;
I hear him in the note, half sweet, half wild,
When bird calls bird their promise to renew;
I feel him in the ardor of the sun
That woos the fragrance from the waking flower,
And maple buds, rose flushed by beauty, won
To swift fulfilment of the Sun God's power.
The world is young once more as he was young,
With life and love reborn in everything—
O singing hearts! My own is faint and wrung;
The rapture and the riot of the Spring

Love is a talent, like the gift of song
That thrills its cadenced passion on the ear,
So Love, with harmony as rich and clear
Strikes on the chord of Life, a vibrant, strong,
Full note, that turns to right the cruel wrong,
That lifts the lonely, stills the starting tear,
Heals the bruised heart and casteth out all fear
With peace that only can to Love belong.

But if the singer sing not, then the high,
Sweet resonance shall harsh and tuneless fall —
Thus Love, if only garnered and not given,

When the creed begins to throttle
Life-expression, love-endeavour,
Save the wine, but scrap the bottle;
Love must be our light forever.

But the word must be the new one,
Gleaming and forever glowing,
And the vine must be the true one,
Every year new blossoms showing.

He sang as he lay on Mangerton mountain,
That Irish knight who had never known love,
" What song so sweet as the chiming fountain?
What blue so blue as the heaven above? "
Fond heart! for nearer and nearer drew
A sweeter voice and an eye more blue.

" O what can blush by the purple heather?
What gold with the gorse-flower dare compare? "
He turned, fond heart, and found them together,
On her glowing cheek and her glittering hair,

O, WHITE and red,
Above your head
The arbutus flowers and berries grow;
And underneath
The blushing heath
I've found for luck the heath of snow;
And sure 'tis fine
The foamy line
That laughs across the purple bay;
But, ah, let slip
From your ripe lip
One loving smile, and where are they?