Love Poems – Page 2674

Hope of the Human Heart

From “Anima Mundi”
GOD is good,
And flight is destined for the callow wing, …

Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton English
What is Prayer?

Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed—
The motion of a hidden fire …

James Montgomery English
The Time for Prayer

WHEN is the time for prayer?
With the first beams that light the morning’s sky,
Ere for the toils of day thou dost prepare, …

Georgiana Bennett English
Seasons of Prayer

To prayer, to prayer;—for the morning breaks,
And earth in her Maker’s smile awakes.
His light is on all below and above,— …

Henry Ware, Jr. English
Prayer and Repentance

From “Hamlet,” Act III. Sc. 3.
The King. O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon ’t, …

William Shakespeare English
The Caliph and Satan

Versified from Tholuck’s Translation out of the Persian
IN heavy sleep the Caliph lay,
When some one called, “Arise, and pray!” …

James Freeman Clarke English
“Darkness is thinning”

From the Latin by John Mason Neale
DARKNESS is thinning; shadows are retreating;
Morning and light are coming in their beauty; …

Saint Gregory English
Praise

To write a verse or two is all the praise
That I can raise;
Mend my estate in any wayes, …

George Herbert English
Desire

Thou, who dost dwell alone;
Thou, who dost know thine own;
Thou, to whom all are known, …

Matthew Arnold English
Prayer and Answer

O God, I cannot walk the Way,—
The thorns, the thirst, the darkness,
And bleeding feet and aching heart! …

Oliver Huckel English