Love Poems – Page 2741
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Soliloquy on Death
From “Hamlet,” Act III. Sc. 1. / HAMLET.—To be, or not to be,—that is the question:— / Whether ’t is nobler in the mind to suffer … -
Sic Vita
LIKE 1 to the falling of a star, / Or as the flights of eagles are, / Or like the fresh spring’s gaudy hue, … -
Virtue Immortal
Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, / The bridall of the earth and skie; / The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; … -
Man’s Mortality
LIKE as the damask rose you see, / Or like the blossom on the tree, / Or like the dainty flower in May, … -
Mortality
O Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? / Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, / A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, … -
The Hour of Death
LEAVES have their time to fall, / And flowers to wither at the north-wind’s breath, / And stars to set—but all, … -
A Picture of Death
From “The Giaour” / HE who hath bent him o’er the dead / Ere the first day of death is fled, … -
A Morning Thought
What if some morning, when the stars were paling, / And the dawn whitened, and the east was clear, / Strange peace and rest fell on me from the presence … -
Now and Afterwards
“Two hands upon the breast, and labor is past.” / —RUSSIAN PROVERB. / “TWO hands upon the breast, … -
The Grave of Sophocles
From the Greek by William M. Hardinge / TENDERLY, ivy, on Sophocles’ grave—right tenderly—twine / Garlanding over the mound network of delicate green. …
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