Love Poems – Page 2799
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The Three Warnings
The Tree of deepest root is found / Least willing still to quit the ground; / ’T was therefore said by ancient sages, … -
Old Age and Death
From “Verses upon His Divine Poesy” / THE SEAS are quiet when the winds give o’er; / So calm are we when passions are no more. … -
The Ruling Passion
From “Moral Essays,” Epistle I. / SEARCH thou the ruling passion; there, alone, / The wild are constant, and the cunning known; … -
To a Skeleton
[The Ms. of this poem, which appeared in 1820, was said to have been found in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, in London, near a perfect human skeleton. It was published in the Morning Chronicle. The author was never discovered, although a reward of fifty guineas was offered.] / BEHOL… -
The True Philosophy of Life
Modernized by Hugh Haliburton / Full oft I muse and hes in thocht. / THE PASSAGE of the speeding year, … -
Blest Memory
From “The Pleasures of Memory” / ETHEREAL power! who at the noon of night / Recall’st the far fled spirit of delight; … -
Sudden Light
I Have been here before, / But when or how I cannot tell: / I know the grass beyond the door, … -
Pre-Existence
While sauntering through the crowded street, / Some half-remembered face I meet, / Albeit upon no mortal shore … -
A Lost Chord
Seated one day at the organ, / I was weary and ill at ease, / And my fingers wandered idly … -
The Closing Year
’t Is midnight’s holy hour,—and silence now / Is brooding like a gentle spirit o’er / The still and pulseless world. Hark! on the winds …
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