Love Poems – Page 2766
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The Last Man
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, / The Sun himself must die, / Before this mortal shall assume … -
When
If I were told that I must die to-morrow, / That the next sun / Which sinks should bear me past all fear and sorrow … -
Burial of Moses
“And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.”—DEUTERONOMY xxxiv. 6. / BY Nebo’s lonely mountain, / On this side Jordan’s wave, … -
The Resignation
O God, whose thunder shakes the sky, / Whose eye this atom globe surveys, / To thee, my only rock, I fly, … -
Only Waiting
[A very aged man in an almshouse was asked what he was doing now. He replied, “Only waiting.”] / ONLY waiting till the shadows / Are a little longer grown, … -
Hopefully Waiting
“Blessed are they who are homesick, for they shall come at last to their Father’s house.”—HEINRICH STILLING. / NOT as you meant, O learnèd man, and good! / Do I accept thy words of truth and rest; … -
“Sit down, sad soul”
Sit down, sad soul, and count / The moments flying; / Come, tell the sweet amount … -
“It kindles all my soul”
From the Latin by John Mason Neale / “Urit me Patriæ decor.” / IT kindles all my soul, … -
Crossing the Bar
Sunset and evening star, / And one clear call for me! / And may there be no moaning of the bar, … -
Ode; Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
I. / there was a time when meadow, grove and stream, / The earth, and every common sight, …
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