Love Poems – Page 2532

The Cello

When late I heard the trembling cello play,
In every face I read sad memories
That from dark, secret chambers where they lay …

Richard Watson Gilder English
Ah, Be Not False

Ah, be not false, sweet Splendor!
Be true, be good;
Be wise as thou art tender; …

Richard Watson Gilder English
Of One Who Neither Sees Nor Hears

She lives in light, not shadow;
Not silence, but the sound
Which thrills the stars of heaven …

Richard Watson Gilder English
The Birds of Bethlehem

I heard the bells of Bethlehem ring—
Their voice was sweeter than the priests’;
I heard the birds of Bethlehem sing …

Richard Watson Gilder English
Noel

Star-dust and vaporous light,—
The mist of worlds unborn,—
A shuddering in the awful night …

Richard Watson Gilder English
The Song of a Heathen

If jesus Christ is a man,—
And only a man,—I say
That of all mankind I cleave to him, …

Richard Watson Gilder English
The Heroic Age

He speaks not well who doth his time deplore,
Naming it new and little and obscure,
Ignoble and unfit for lofty deeds. …

Richard Watson Gilder English
After-Song

Through love to light! Oh wonderful the way
That leads from darkness to the perfect day!
From darkness and from sorrow of the night …

Richard Watson Gilder English
From "Wendell Phillips"

What shall we mourn? For the prostrate tree that sheltered the young green wood?
For the fallen cliff that fronted the sea, and guarded the fields from the flood?
For the eagle that died in the tempest, afar from its eyrie’s brood? …

English
At Best

The faithful helm commands the keel,
From port to port fair breezes blow;
But the ship must sail the convex sea, …

John Boyle O'Reilly English