Love Poems – Page 2668

“Only a year”

One year ago,—a ringing voice,
A clear blue eye,
And clustering curls of sunny hair, …

Harriet Beecher Stowe English
Blessed are They that Mourn

Oh, deem not they are blest alone
Whose lives a peaceful tenor keep;
The Power who pities man, has shown …

William Cullen Bryant English
Lines to the Memory of “Annie”

Who Died at Milan, June 6, 1860
“Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him.”
—JOHN xx. 15. …

Harriet Beecher Stowe English
Death in Youth

From “Festus”
FOR to die young is youth’s divinest gift;
To pass from one world fresh into another, …

Philip James Bailey English
In Memoriam F. A. S.

Yet, O stricken heart, remember, O remember
How of human days he lived the better part.
April came to bloom and never dim December …

Robert Louis Stevenson English
Christus Consolator

Beside the dead I knelt for prayer,
And felt a presence as I prayed.
Lo! it was Jesus standing there. …

Rossiter Worthington Raymond English
Comfort

Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet
From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,
Lest I should fear and fall, and miss thee so …

Elizabeth Barrett Browning English
The Secret of Death

“she is dead!” they said to him; “come away;
Kiss her and leave her,—thy love is clay!”
They smoothed her tresses of dark brown hair; …

Sir Edwin Arnold English
Footsteps of Angels

When the hours of day are numbered,
And the voices of the night
Wake the better soul that slumbered …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
“Happy are the dead”

I Walked the other day, to spend my hour,
Into a field,
Where I sometimes had seen the soil to yield …

Henry Vaughan English