Love Poems – Page 2699
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Death in Youth
From “Festus” / FOR to die young is youth’s divinest gift; / To pass from one world fresh into another, … -
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 … -
Christus Consolator
Beside the dead I knelt for prayer, / And felt a presence as I prayed. / Lo! it was Jesus standing there. … -
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 … -
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; … -
Footsteps of Angels
When the hours of day are numbered, / And the voices of the night / Wake the better soul that slumbered … -
“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 … -
“The green grass under the snow”
The Work of the sun is slow, / But as sure as heaven, we know; / So we ’ll not forget, … -
“Thou art gone to the grave”
Thou art gone to the grave—but we will not deplore thee, / Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb; / The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, … -
After Death in Arabia
Translated by Sir Edwin Arnold / From “Pearls of the Faith” / He made life—and He takes it—but instead …
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