Love Poems – Page 2795
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Rubáiyát
Paraphrased from the Persian by Edward Fitzgerald / I. / WAKE! for the Sun, who scattered into flight … -
Time: An Enigma
Ever eating, never cloying, / All-devouring, all-destroying, / Never finding full repast … -
This Life
This Life, which seems so fair, / Is like a bubble blown up in the air / By sporting children’s breath, … -
Retribution
From the German by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / [Greek] / (“The mills of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.”) … -
The Lye
Goe, soule, the bodie’s guest, / Upon a thanklesse arrant; / Feare not to touche the best— … -
The Generous Air
From the Greek by William M. Hardinge / BREATHING the thin breath through our nostrils, we / Live, and a little space the sunlight see— … -
Good Life, Long Life
IT is not growing like a tree / In bulk, doth make man better be; / Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, … -
“Where lies the land?”
Where lies the land to which the ship would go? / Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. / And where the land she travels from? Away, … -
The Rose-Bush
From the German by William Warren Caldwell / A CHILD sleeps under a rose-bush fair, / The buds swell out in the soft May air; … -
History of a Life
Day dawned;—within a curtained room, / Filled to faintness with perfume, / A lady lay at point of doom. …
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