Love Poems – Page 4047

The Call

Come, my way, my truth, my life—
Such a way as gives us breath;
Such a truth as ends all strife; …

George Herbert English
Hope

From “The Pleasures of Hope” 1
UNFADING Hope! when life’s last embers burn,
When soul to soul, and dust to dust return! …

Thomas Campbell English
Santa Filomena

[Florence Nightingale]
WHENE’ER a noble deed is wrought,
Whene’er is spoken a noble thought, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
Love

If suddenly upon the street
My gracious Saviour I should meet,
And he should say, “As I love thee, …

Charles Francis Richardson English
Vesper Hymn

The Day is done; the weary day of thought and toil is past,
Soft falls the twilight cool and gray on the tired earth at last:
By wisest teachers wearied, by gentlest friends oppressed, …

Eliza Scudder English
The Word

O Word of God incarnate,
O Wisdom from on high,
O Truth unchanged, unchanging, …

William Walsham How English
Peace

Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave,
Let me once know.
I sought thee in a secret cave; …

George Herbert English
Peace

IS this the peace of God, this strange sweet calm?
The weary day is at its zenith still,
Yet ’t is as if beside some cool, clear rill, …

Frances Ridley Havergal English
Devotion

THE Immortal gods
Accept the meanest altars, that are raised
By pure devotion; and sometimes prefer …

Philip Massinger English
Life

It is not life upon thy gifts to live,
But to grow fixed with deeper roots in Thee;
And when the sun and showers their bounties give, …

Jones Very English