Love Poems – Page 2666

“When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed”

[The Death of Lincoln.]
1.
WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed, …

Walt Whitman English
“If I should die to-night”

IF I should die to-night,
My friends would look upon my quiet face
Before they laid it in its resting-place, …

Belle E. Smith English
“Beyond the smiling and the weeping”

Beyond the smiling and the weeping
I shall be soon;
Beyond the waking and the sleeping, …

Horatius Bonar English
Antony and Cleopatra

“I am dying, Egypt, dying.”
—SHAKESPEARE’S Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV. Sc. 13.
I AM dying, Egypt, dying, …

William Haines Lytle English
“Farewell, Life”

Written During Sickness, April, 1845
FAREWELL, life! my senses swim,
And the world is growing dim; …

Thomas Hood English
The Sleep

“He giveth his belovèd sleep.”
—PSALM cxxvii. 2.
OF all the thoughts of God that are …

Elizabeth Barrett Browning English
Prospice

Fear death? to feel the fog in my throat,
The mist in my face,
When the snows begin, and the blasts denote …

Robert Browning English
Farewell

I Strove with none, for none was worth my strife;
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art;
I warmed both hands before the fire of life,— …

Walter Savage Landor English
“Asleep! asleep!”

“And so saying, he fell asleep.”
Martyrdom of Saint Stephen
ASLEEP! asleep! men talk of “sleep,” …

Lucy Ann Bennett English
Hush!

Oh, hush thee, Earth! Fold thou thy weary palms!
The sunset glory fadeth in the west;
The purple splendor leaves the mountain’s crest; …

Julia C. R. Dorr English