Love Poems – Page 4049

Heaven

O Beauteous God! uncircumscribèd treasure
Of an eternal pleasure!
Thy throne is seated far …

Jeremy Taylor English
Heaven

Beyond these chilling winds and gloomy skies,
Beyond death’s cloudy portal,
There is a land where beauty never dies, …

Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest Wakefield English
Heaven

There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes the night, …

Isaac Watts English
The New Jerusalem

Or, the Soul’s Breathing after the Heavenly Country
“Since Christ’s fair truth needs no man’s art,
Take this rude song in better part.” …

Anonymous English
Prayer

Translated by Henry Francis Cary
Selections from “The Divine Comedy”
Purgatory: Canto VI. …

Dante Alighieri English
Light

THOU art the joy of age:
Thy sun is dear when long the shadow falls.
Forth to its friendliness the old man crawls, …

George MacDonald English
Daybreak

A Wind came up out of the sea,
And said, “O mists, make room for me!”
It hailed the ships, and cried, “Sail on, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
Dawn

THE Night was dark, though sometimes a faint star
A little while a little space made bright.
The night was long and like an iron bar …

Richard Watson Gilder English
Morning

In the barn the tenant cock,
Close to partlet perched on high,
Briskly crows (the shepherd’s clock!) …

John Cunningham English
Morning

From “The Minstrel”
BUT who the melodies of morn can tell?
The wild brook babbling down the mountainside; …

James Beattie English