Love Poems – Page 2806
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Haste not! Rest not!
Anonymous translation from the German / “Ohne Hast, ohne Rast.” / WITHOUT haste! without rest! … -
Contentment
I Weigh not fortune’s frown or smile; / I joy not much in earthly joys; / I seek not state, I reck not style; … -
Song: “He that is down need fear no fall”
He that is down need fear no fall; / He that is low, no pride; / He that is humble ever shall … -
Cleon and I
Cleon hath a million acres, ne’er a one have I; / Cleon dwelleth in a palace, in a cottage I; / Cleon hath a dozen fortunes, not a penny I; … -
The Wants of Man
“man wants but little here below, / Nor wants that little long.” / ’T is not with me exactly so; … -
Ulysses
It little profits that, an idle king, / By this still hearth, among these barren crags, / Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole … -
To All in Haven
All ye who have gained the haven of safe days, / And rest at ease, your wanderings being done, / Except the last, inevitable one, … -
A Woman’s Wish
Would I were lying in a field of clover, / Of clover cool and soft, and soft and sweet, / With dusky clouds on deep skies hanging over, … -
The World and the Quietist
“WHY, when the world’s great mind / Hath finally inclined, / Why,” you say, Critias, “be debating still? … -
Invocation to Sleep
From “Valentinian” / COME, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving / Lock me in delight awhile; …
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