Love Poems – Page 4046

The Conqueror’s Grave

Within this lowly grave a Conqueror lies,
And yet the monument proclaims it not,
Nor round the sleeper’s name hath chisel wrought …

William Cullen Bryant English
“It is not death to die”

It is not death to die,
To leave this weary road,
And, midst the brotherhood on high, …

George Washington Bethune English
Good-bye

Good-bye, proud world, I’m going home:
Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.
Long through thy weary crowds I roam; …

Ralph Waldo Emerson English
“O little town of Bethlehem”

O Little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep …

Phillips Brooks English
The Angels’ Song

It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth …

Edmund Hamilton Sears English
De Sheepfol’

De massa ob de sheepfol’,
Dat guards de sheepfol’ bin,
Look out in de gloomerin’ meadows, …

Sarah Pratt M’Lean Greene English
Dies Iræ

From the Latin by John A. Dix 1
“That day, a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers!”
—ZEPHANIAH i. …

Thomas à Celano English
Prayer

Anonymous translation
O GOD! though sorrow be my fate,
And the world’s hate …

Mary, Queen of Hungary English
“Why thus longing?”

Why thus longing, thus forever sighing
For the far off, unattained, and dim,
While the beautiful, all round thee lying, …

Harriet Winslow Sewall English
Faith

O World, thou choosest not the better part!
It is not wisdom to be only wise,
And on the inward vision close the eyes, …

George Santayana English