Love Poems – Page 2661

The Saddest Fate

TO touch a broken lute,
To strike a jangled string,
To strive with tones forever mute …

Anonymous English
The Song of the Savoyards

Far poured past Broadway’s lamps alight,
The tumult of her motley throng,
When high and clear upon the night …

Henry Ames Blood English
Soliloquy on Death

From “Hamlet,” Act III. Sc. 1.
HAMLET.—To be, or not to be,—that is the question:—
Whether ’t is nobler in the mind to suffer …

William Shakespeare English
Sic Vita

LIKE 1 to the falling of a star,
Or as the flights of eagles are,
Or like the fresh spring’s gaudy hue, …

Henry King, Bishop of Chichester English
Virtue Immortal

Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridall of the earth and skie;
The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; …

George Herbert English
Man’s Mortality

LIKE as the damask rose you see,
Or like the blossom on the tree,
Or like the dainty flower in May, …

Simon Wastell English
Mortality

O Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, …

William Knox English
The Hour of Death

LEAVES have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north-wind’s breath,
And stars to set—but all, …

Felicia Hemans English
A Picture of Death

From “The Giaour”
HE who hath bent him o’er the dead
Ere the first day of death is fled, …

Lord Byron English
A Morning Thought

What if some morning, when the stars were paling,
And the dawn whitened, and the east was clear,
Strange peace and rest fell on me from the presence …

Edward Rowland Sill English