Love Poems – Page 2530

Ancient of Days

Ancient of days, Who sittest, throned in glory;
To Thee all knees are bent, all voices pray;
Thy love has blest the wide world’s wondrous story, …

William Croswell Doane English
O Little Town of Bethlehem

O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep …

Phillips Brooks English
In Galilee

Roman and Jew upon one level lie;
Great Herod’s palaces are ground to dust;
Upon the synagogues are mould and rust; …

Mary Frances Butts English
Reincarnation

It cannot be that He who made
This wondrous world for our delight,
Designed that all its charms should fade …

David Banks Sickels English
Roll Out, O Song

roll out, O song to God!
Move on, ye throngs of men!
Chances and changes come and go: …

Frank Sewall English
Not Knowing

I know not what will befall me: God hangs a mist o’er my eyes;
And thus, each step of my onward path, He makes new scenes arise,
And every joy He sends to me comes like a sweet surprise. …

Mary Gardiner Brainard English
To St - Mary Magdalen by Benjamin Dionysius Hill

Mid the white spouses of the Sacred Heart,
After its queen, the nearest, dearest thou:
Yet the aureola around thy brow …

English
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

“now i lay me down to sleep:
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,”
Was my childhood’s early prayer …

Eugene Henry Pullen English
One Saturday

I never had a happier time,
And I am forty-three,
Than one midsummer afternoon, …

Annie Douglas Robinson English
My Laddie's Hounds

they are my laddie’s hounds
That rin the wood at brak o’ day.
Wha is it taks them hence? Can ony say …

Marguerite Elizabeth Easter English