Love Poems – Page 2660

Despondency Rebuked

Say not, the struggle nought availeth,
The labor and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth, …

Arthur Hugh Clough English
God’s Sure Help in Sorrow

From the German by Catherine Winkworth
LEAVE all to God,
Forsaken one, and stay thy tears; …

Anton Ulrich English
Sonnet: “While yet these tears have power to flow”

From the French by Louise Stuart Costello
WHILE yet these tears have power to flow
For hours for ever past away; …

Louise Labé English
Aunt Phillis’s Guest

St. Helena Island, South Carolina, in 1863
I WAS young and “Harry” was strong,
The summer was bursting from sky and plain, …

William Channing Gannett English
“Ilka blade o’ grass keps its ain drap o’ dew”

Confide ye aye in Providence, for Providence is kind,
And bear ye a’ life’s changes, wi’ a calm and tranquil mind,
Though pressed and hemmed on every side, ha’e faith and ye ’ll win through, …

James Ballantine English
Unchanging

Anonymous translation from the German
IN early days methought that all must last;
Then I beheld all changing, dying, fleeting; …

Friedrich von Bodenstedt English
I Hold Still

Anonymous translation from the German
PAIN’S furnace heat within me quivers,
God’s breath upon the flame doth blow, …

Julius Sturm English
The Good, Great Man

How seldom, Friend! a good great man inherits
Honor or wealth with all his worth and pains!
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits. …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge English
“When my ship comes in”

Somewhere, out on the blue seas sailing,
Where the winds dance and spin;
Beyond the reach of my eager hailing, …

Robert Jones Burdette English
Never Despair

NEVER 1 despair! Let the feeble in spirit
Bow like the willow that stoops to the blast.
Droop not in peril! ’T is manhood’s true merit …

William Smith O’Brien English