Love Poems – Page 4057

A Wish

This only grant me, that my means may lie
Too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Some honor I would have, …

Abraham Cowley English
Content

From “Farewell to Follie,” 1617
SWEET are the thoughts that savor of content;
The quiet mind is richer than a crown; …

Robert Greene English
In Prison

Beat on, proud billows; Boreas, blow;
Swell, curlèd waves, high as Jove’s roof;
Your incivility doth show …

Sir Roger L’Estrange English
Contentment

“Man wants but little here below.”
LITTLE I ask; my wants are few;
I only wish a hut of stone, …

Oliver Wendell Holmes English
Rest

TO spend the long warm days
Silent beside the silent-stealing streams,
To see, not gaze,— …

Margaret L. Woods English
Sleep

Come, gentle sleep! attend thy votary’s prayer,
And, though death’s image, to my couch repair;
How sweet, though lifeless, yet with life to lie, …

John Wolcot English
Sleep

From “Second Part of Henry IV.,” Act III. Sc. 1.
KING HENRY.—How many thousand of my poorest subjects
Are at this hour asleep!—O sleep! O gentle sleep! …

William Shakespeare English
Watching

In Burmah
SLEEP, love, sleep!
The dusty day is done. …

Emily Chubbuck Judson English
Abraham Lincoln

From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865
LIFE may be given in many ways,
And loyalty to Truth be sealed …

James Russell Lowell English
George Sand

True genius, but true woman! dost deny
Thy woman’s nature with a manly scorn,
And break away the gauds and armlets worn …

Elizabeth Barrett Browning English