Love Poems – Page 2715

• Easy to Drift

  Easy to drift to the open sea, / The tides are eager and swift and strong, / And whistling and free are the rushing winds,— …

  by Oliver Huckel

• The Foolish Virgins

  From “Idyls of the King: Guinevere” / THE QUEEN looked up, and said, / “O maiden, if indeed you list to sing, …

  by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Up Hill

  Does the road wind up hill all the way? / Yes, to the very end. / Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? …

  by Christina Georgina Rossetti

• Per Pacem ad Lucem

  I Do not ask, O Lord, that life may be / A pleasant road; / I do not ask that Thou wouldst take from me …

  by Adelaide Anne Procter

• The Martyrs’ Hymn

  From the German by William Johnson Fox / FLUNG to the heedless winds, / Or on the waters cast, …

  by Martin Luther

• The Pilgrimage

  Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, / My staff of faith to walk upon, / My scrip of joy, immortal diet, …

  by Sir Walter Raleigh

• The Master’s Touch

  In the still air the music lies unheard; / In the rough marble beauty hides unseen: / To make the music and the beauty, needs …

  by Horatius Bonar

• The Faithful Angel

  From “Paradise Lost,” Book V. / THE SERAPH Abdiel, faithful found / Among the faithless, faithful only he; …

  by John Milton

• Low Spirits

  Fever and fret and aimless stir / And disappointed strife, / All chafing, unsuccessful things, …

  by Frederick William Faber

• “I saw Thee”

  “When thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.”—JOHN i. 48. / I SAW thee when, as twilight fell, / And evening lit her fairest star, …

  by Ray Palmer

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