Love Poems – Page 2675

The Aim

O Thou who lovest not alone
The swift success, the instant goal,
But hast a lenient eye to mark …

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts English
The Love of God Supreme

From the German by John Wesley
THOU hidden love of God, whose height,
Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, …

Gerhard Tersteegen English
In a Lecture-Room

Away, haunt thou not me,
Thou vain Philosophy!
Little hast thou bestead, …

Arthur Hugh Clough English
“From the recesses of a lowly spirit”

From the recesses of a lowly spirit,
Our humble prayer ascends; O Father! hear it.
Upsoaring on the wings of awe and meekness, …

John Bowring English
Ascription

O Thou who hast beneath Thy hand
The dark foundations of the land,—
The motion of whose ordered thought …

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts English
“O Master, let me walk with thee”

O Master, let me walk with thee
In lowly paths of service free;
Tell me thy secret; help me bear …

Washington Gladden English
The Fight of Faith

[The author of this poem, one of the victims of the persecuting Henry VIII., was burnt to death at Smithfield in 1546. It was made and sung by her while a prisoner in Newgate.]
LIKE as the armèd Knighte,
Appointed to the fielde, …

Anne Askewe English
Doubt and Faith

From “In Memoriam,” XCV.
YOU say, but with no touch of scorn,
Sweet-hearted, you, whose light-blue eyes …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
“My times are in thy hand”

MY times are in thy hand!
I know not what a day
Or e’en an hour may bring to me, …

Christopher Newman Hall English
A Mystical Ecstasy

E’en like two little bank-dividing brooks,
That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams,
And having ranged and searched a thousand nooks, …

Francis Quarles English