Love Poems – Page 2680

Day Breaks

What dost thou see, lone watcher on the tower,
Is the day breaking? Comes the wished-for hour?
Tell us the signs, and stretch abroad thy hand, …

Charles Mackay English
My Home

A Thanksgiving to God for a House in the Green Parish of Devonshire
LORD, thou hast given me a cell
Wherein to dwell, …

Robert Herrick English
Living Waters

There are some hearts like wells, green-mossed and deep
As ever Summer saw;
And cool their water is,—yea, cool and sweet;— …

Caroline S. Spencer English
The Seaside Well

“Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.”—LAMENTATIONS iii. 54.
ONE day I wandered where the salt sea-tide
Backward had drawn its wave, …

Anonymous English
Ultima Veritas

In the bitter waves of woe,
Beaten and tossed about
By the sullen winds that blow …

Washington Gladden English
The End of the Play

The Play is done,—the curtain drops,
Slow falling to the prompter’s bell;
A moment yet the actor stops, …

William Makepeace Thackeray English
The New Year

From “In Memoriam,” CV.
RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light: …

Alfred, Lord Tennyson English
The Temptation

From “Paradise Lost,” Book IX.
THE SUN was sunk, and after him the star
Of Hesperus, whose office is to bring …

John Milton English
The Fall

From “Paradise Lost,” Book IX.
HE ended, and his words replete with guile
Into her heart too easy entrance won: …

John Milton English
Intercession and Redemption

From “Paradise Lost,” Book XI.
THUS they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood
Praying; for from the mercy-seat above …

John Milton English