Love Poems – Page 2767

• Soliloquy: On Immortality

  From “Cato,” Act V. Sc. 1. / SCENE.—CATO, sitting in a thoughtful posture, with Plato’s book on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand, and a drawn sword on the table by him. / IT must be so—Plato, thou reasonest well!— …

  by Joseph Addison

• Edwin and Paulinus: The Conversion of Northumbria

  The Black-haired gaunt Paulinus / By ruddy Edwin stood:— / “Bow down, O king of Deira, …

  by Anonymous

• The Undiscovered Country

  COULD we but know / The land that ends our dark, uncertain travel, / Where lie those happier hills and meadows low; …

  by Edmund Clarence Stedman

• Song of the Silent Land

  Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / “Das stille Land” / INTO the Silent Land! …

  by Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

• Thoughts of Heaven

  High thoughts! / They come and go, / Like the soft breathings of a listening maiden, …

  by Robert Nicoll

• Meeting Above

  If yon bright stars which gem the night / Be each a blissful dwelling-sphere / Where kindred spirits reunite …

  by William Leggett

• “My days among the dead”

  My days among the dead are passed; / Around me I behold, / Where’er these casual eyes are cast, …

  by Robert Southey

• 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 …

  by William Cullen Bryant

• 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. …

  by Mortimer Collins

• “Forever with the Lord”

  FOREVER with the Lord! / Amen! so let it be! / Life from the dead is in that word, …

  by James Montgomery

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