Love Poems – Page 2662

Now and Afterwards

“Two hands upon the breast, and labor is past.”
—RUSSIAN PROVERB.
“TWO hands upon the breast, …

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik English
The Grave of Sophocles

From the Greek by William M. Hardinge
TENDERLY, ivy, on Sophocles’ grave—right tenderly—twine
Garlanding over the mound network of delicate green. …

Simmias of Rhodes English
Inscription on Melrose Abbey

The Earth goes on the earth glittering in gold,
The earth goes to the earth sooner than it wold;
The earth builds on the earth castles and towers, …

Anonymous English
God’s Acre

I Like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls
The burial-ground God’s-Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
Sleepy Hollow

No abbey’s gloom, nor dark cathedral stoops,
No winding torches paint the midnight air;
Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops …

William Ellery Channing English
Greenwood Cemetery

How calm they sleep beneath the shade
Who once were weary of the strife,
And bent, like us, beneath the load …

Crammond Kennedy English
On a Grave at Grindelwald

Here let us leave him; for his shroud the snow,
For funeral-lamps he has the planets seven,
For a great sign the icy stair shall go …

Frederic William Henry Myers English
The Emigrant Lassie

As I came wandering down Glen Spean,
Where the braes are green and grassy,
With my light step I overtook …

John Stuart Blackie English
The Widow’s Mite

A WIDOW—she had only one!
A puny and decrepit son;
But, day and night, …

Frederick Locker-Lampson English
“Are the children at home?”

Each day, when the glow of sunset
Fades in the western sky,
And the wee ones, tired of playing, …

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster English