. The gem of the school room : recitation book of prose and poems. OEMS AND PROSE They tell to me a story sweet,As I am walking long the street,Een though they are so far I am neath other skies ray. They seem to speak to me afar,And tell me, love, just how you are;They tell me, too, of other tangled wilds, and forest chimes. A story sweet in verse they tell,Of wooded hill and tinted dell;Of verdure green and skies so fair,Bewildering scene both rich and rare. THE TIDAL-WAVES OF LOVE The river of love is frozen, A rigid, ghastly, leaden thing; Bereft of the one I had chosen
. The gem of the school room : recitation book of prose and poems. OEMS AND PROSE They tell to me a story sweet,As I am walking long the street,Een though they are so far I am neath other skies ray. They seem to speak to me afar,And tell me, love, just how you are;They tell me, too, of other tangled wilds, and forest chimes. A story sweet in verse they tell,Of wooded hill and tinted dell;Of verdure green and skies so fair,Bewildering scene both rich and rare. THE TIDAL-WAVES OF LOVE The river of love is frozen, A rigid, ghastly, leaden thing; Bereft of the one I had chosenThere is left no source, no spring. Only the tropical loves sun Can ever thaw the frigid stream And flow to life as it begun. Bringing true, deep joy, I ween. So ply thy torch of flaming loveLetting Sir Cupids loyal strides Gain admiration from true joy upon the tides. SHRINED IN MY HEART Thou art dearer to me than the fairest thee I while weary hours away:The pearly dew-drops glow and sparkle afar,But my true love, thourt my radiant THE BRIDGE OF LOVE 77 Thourt, my own true love, a glow of pure light,More radiant by far, than the stars of a sincere love, pure and divine,Whose firm, strong tendrils round my heart twine. An accepted love, holy, true and pure,Whose flashing light is most subtile, demure,Bringing to my life a sweet, soothing my heart on loves heavenly balm. THE BRIDGE OF LOVE Oh, thou mystic bridge of loveDeep within the shade of grove. Where giant oaks their branches spreadAnd where the maple shades a cove. Here the love lights blush demureLike radiant stars within the east Rise one by one the campus oerTo the vision weaving a fairy feast. And here full many a match was wroughtBeneath the forest trees so rare. Speaking a language quaint and into eyes bewitchingly fair, Wherein hidden mystery dwells,And where the heart of boy and girl Throbs beneath the sighing treesWhile Cupid doth his arrow h
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