Love Poems – Page 2478

Paraphrase of Luther's Hymn

A mighty fortress is our God,
A bulwark never failing;
Our helper he amid the flood …

Frederic Henry Hedge English
Milton's Prayer of Patience

i am old and blind!
Men point at me as smitten by God’s frown;
Afflicted and deserted of my kind, …

Elizabeth Lloyd Howell English
The Angels' Song

It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth …

Edmund Hamilton Sears English
The Other World

It lies around us like a cloud,
The world we do not see;
Yet the sweet closing of an eye …

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe English
Love Unchangeable

Yes, still I love thee! Time, who sets
His signet on my brow,
And dims my sunken eye, forgets …

Rufus Dawes English
Love Unsought

They tell me that I must not love,
That thou wilt spurn the free
And unbought tenderness that gives …

Emma Catharine Embury English
Come Back

Come back and bring my life again
That went with thee beyond my will!
Restore me that which makes me man …

Henry William Herbert English
A Remembrance

I see thee still! thou art not dead,
Though dust is mingled with thy form;
The broken sunbeam hath not shed …

Willis Gaylord Clarke English
A Death-Bed

Her suffering ended with the day,
Yet lived she at its close,
And breathed the long; long night away …

James Aldrich English
Florence Vane

I loved thee long and dearly,
Florence Vane;
My life’s bright dream and early …

Philip Pendleton Cooke English