Love Poems – Page 2740

• Sonnet: “While yet these tears have power to flow”

  From the French by Louise Stuart Costello / WHILE yet these tears have power to flow / For hours for ever past away; …

  by Louise Labé

• Aunt Phillis’s Guest

  St. Helena Island, South Carolina, in 1863 / I WAS young and “Harry” was strong, / The summer was bursting from sky and plain, …

  by William Channing Gannett

• “Ilka blade o’ grass keps its ain drap o’ dew”

  Confide ye aye in Providence, for Providence is kind, / And bear ye a’ life’s changes, wi’ a calm and tranquil mind, / Though pressed and hemmed on every side, ha’e faith and ye ’ll win through, …

  by James Ballantine

• Unchanging

  Anonymous translation from the German / IN early days methought that all must last; / Then I beheld all changing, dying, fleeting; …

  by Friedrich von Bodenstedt

• I Hold Still

  Anonymous translation from the German / PAIN’S furnace heat within me quivers, / God’s breath upon the flame doth blow, …

  by Julius Sturm

• The Good, Great Man

  How seldom, Friend! a good great man inherits / Honor or wealth with all his worth and pains! / It sounds like stories from the land of spirits. …

  by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• “When my ship comes in”

  Somewhere, out on the blue seas sailing, / Where the winds dance and spin; / Beyond the reach of my eager hailing, …

  by Robert Jones Burdette

• Never Despair

  NEVER 1 despair! Let the feeble in spirit / Bow like the willow that stoops to the blast. / Droop not in peril! ’T is manhood’s true merit …

  by William Smith O’Brien

• The Saddest Fate

  TO touch a broken lute, / To strike a jangled string, / To strive with tones forever mute …

  by Anonymous

• The Song of the Savoyards

  Far poured past Broadway’s lamps alight, / The tumult of her motley throng, / When high and clear upon the night …

  by Henry Ames Blood

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