Love Poems – Page 4048

• The Gifts of God

  WHEN God at first made man,
  Having a glass of blessings standing by,
  Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: …

  George Herbert English

• The World

  “And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.”—JOHN xvi. 8.
  THE WORLD is wise, for the world is old;
  Five thousand years their tale have told; …

  Frederick William Faber English

• Conscience

  Anonymous translation from the Latin
  From Satire XIII.
  THE SPARTAN rogue who, boldly bent on fraud, …

  Juvenal English

• Passing Away

  Was it the chime of a tiny bell
  That came so sweet to my dreaming ear,
  Like the silvery tones of a fairy’s shell …

  John Pierpont English

• Epilogue

  At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time,
  When you set your fancies free,
  Will they pass to where—by death, fools think, imprisoned— …

  Robert Browning English

• The Other World

  It lies around us like a cloud,—
  A world we do not see;
  Yet the sweet closing of an eye …

  Harriet Beecher Stowe English

• Heaven

  I Never saw a moor,
  I never saw the sea;
  Yet know I how the heather looks, …

  Emily Dickinson English

• Heaven

  That clime is not like this dull clime of ours;
  All, all is brightness there;
  A sweeter influence breathes around its flowers, …

  Anonymous English

• The Answer

  “WHO would not go”
  With buoyant steps, to gain that blessed portal,
  Which opens to the land we long to know? …

  Anonymous English

• Life

  From “Festus,” Scene: “A Country Town”
  FESTUS.— Oh! there is
  A life to come, or all ’s a dream. …

  Philip James Bailey English

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