Love Poems – Page 2673

“Knocking, ever knocking”

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.”
—REVELATIONS iii. 20.
KNOCKING, knocking, ever knocking? …

Harriet Beecher Stowe English
To-morrow

From the Spanish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
LORD, what am I, that, with unceasing care,
Thou didst seek after me,—that Thou didst wait, …

Lope de Vega English
“I gave my life for thee”

I Gave my life for thee,
My precious blood I shed
That thou might’st ransomed be, …

Frances Ridley Havergal English
“Jesus shall reign”

Jesus shall reign where’er the sun
Does his successive journeys run,—
His kingdom spread from shore to shore, …

Isaac Watts English
Messiah

A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil’s Pollio
YE nymphs of Solyma! begin the song:
To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong. …

Alexander Pope English
“My God, I love Thee”

From the Latin by Edward Caswall
MY God, I love thee! not because
I hope for heaven thereby; …

Saint Francis Xavier English
Veni Creator Spiritus

From the Latin by John Dryden
[Sometimes attributed to the Emperor Charlemagne. The better opinion, however, inclines to Pope Gregory I., called the Great, as the author, and fixes its origin somewhere in the sixth century.]
CREATOR Spirit, by whose aid …

Saint Gregory English
Veni Sancte Spiritus

From the Latin by Catharine Winkworth
[Written in the tenth century by Robert II., the gentle son of Hugh Capet. It is often mentioned as second in rank to the Dies Iræ.]
COME, Holy Ghost! thou fire divine! …

King Robert II. of France English
“O Fire of God, the Comforter”

From the Latin by Richard Frederick Littledale
“O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti”
O FIRE of God, the Comforter, O life of all that live, …

Hildegard of Bingen English
The Holy Spirit

In the hour of my distress,
When temptations me oppress,
And when I my sins confess, …

Robert Herrick English