Love Poems – Page 2462

• 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 sky seems to hallow us there, …

  John Howard Payne English

• Exhortation to Prayer

  Not on a prayerless bed, not on a prayerless bed
  Compose thy weary limbs to rest;
  For they alone are blest …

  Margaret Mercer English

• Forgiveness of Sins a Joy unknown to Angels

  Trembling before thine awful throne,
  O Lord! in dust my sins I own:
  Justice and Mercy for my life …

  Augustus Lucas Hillhouse English

• The Crossed Swords

  swords crossed,—but not in strife!
  The chiefs who drew them, parted by the space
  Of two proud countries’ quarrel, face to face …

  Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham English

• Lake Superior

  “father of lakes!” thy waters bend
  Beyond the eagle’s utmost view,
  When, throned in heaven, he sees thee send …

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich English

• The Hour of Peaceful Rest

  There is an hour of peaceful rest
  To mourning wanderers given;
  There is a joy for souls distrest, …

  William Bingham Tappan English

• Song of the Elfin Steersman

  One elf, I trow, is diving now
  For the small pearl; and one,
  The honey-bee for his bag he …

  George Hill English

• The Daughter of Mendoza

  O lend to me, sweet nightingale,
  Your music by the fountain,
  And lend to me your cadences, …

  Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar English

• The Green Isle of Lovers

  They say that, afar in the land of the west,
  Where the bright golden sun sinks in glory to rest,
  Mid ferns where the hunter ne’er ventured to tread, …

  Robert Charles Sands English

• The Lonely Bugle Grieves

  the trump hath blown,
  And now upon that reeking hill
  Slaughter rides screaming on the vengeful ball; …

  Grenville Mellen English

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