Love Poems – Page 2718
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Edwin and Paulinus: The Conversion of Northumbria
The Black-haired gaunt Paulinus / By ruddy Edwin stood:— / “Bow down, O king of Deira, … -
The Undiscovered Country
COULD we but know / The land that ends our dark, uncertain travel, / Where lie those happier hills and meadows low; … -
Song of the Silent Land
Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / “Das stille Land” / INTO the Silent Land! … -
Thoughts of Heaven
High thoughts! / They come and go, / Like the soft breathings of a listening maiden, … -
Meeting Above
If yon bright stars which gem the night / Be each a blissful dwelling-sphere / Where kindred spirits reunite … -
“My days among the dead”
My days among the dead are passed; / Around me I behold, / Where’er these casual eyes are cast, … -
The Future Life
How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps / The disembodied spirits of the dead, / When all of thee that time could wither sleeps … -
The Two Worlds
Two worlds there are. To one our eyes we strain, / Whose magic joys we shall not see again; / Bright haze of morning veils its glimmering shore. … -
“Forever with the Lord”
FOREVER with the Lord! / Amen! so let it be! / Life from the dead is in that word, … -
“To heaven approached a Sufi Saint”
From the Persian by William R. Alger / TO heaven approached a Sufi Saint, / From groping in the darkness late, …
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