Love Poems – Page 4045

Habeas Corpus

My body, eh? Friend Death, how now?
Why all this tedious pomp of writ?
Thou hast reclaimed it sure and slow …

Helen Hunt Jackson English
“I would not live alway”

I Would not live alway—live alway below!
Oh no, I ’ll not linger when bidden to go:
The days of our pilgrimage granted us here …

William Augustus Muhlenberg English
Love and Death

Alas! that men must see
Love, before Death!
Else they content might be …

Margaret Deland English
To Death

Anonymous Translation from the German
METHINKS it were no pain to die
On such an eve, when such a sky …

Anonymous English
Rest

I Lay me down to sleep,
With little care
Whether my waking find …

Mary Woolsey Howland English
Life

“Animula, vagula, blandula.”
LIFE! I know not what thou art,
But know that thou and I must part; …

Anna Letitia Barbauld English
De Profundis

The Face which, duly as the sun,
Rose up for me with life begun,
To mark all bright hours of the day …

Elizabeth Barrett Browning English
Tears

Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not
More grief than ye can weep for. That is well—
That is light grieving! lighter, none befell, …

Elizabeth Barrett Browning English
Resignation

There is no flock, however watched and tended,
But one dead lamb is there!
There is no fireside, howsoe’er defended, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
Peace

There is the peace that cometh after sorrow,
Of hope surrendered, not of hope fulfilled;
A peace that looketh not upon to-morrow, …

Anonymous English