Love Poems – Page 2745
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“Home they brought her warrior dead”
From “The Princess” / HOME they brought her warrior dead: / She nor swooned, nor uttered cry; … -
The King of Denmark’s Ride
Word was brought to the Danish king / (Hurry!) / That the love of his heart lay suffering, … -
Selections from “In Memoriam”
[Arthur Henry Hallam, Ob. 1833] / Grief Unspeakable / V. … -
“The fairest thing in mortal eyes”
From the French by Henry Francis Cary / Addressed to his deceased wife, who died in childbed at the age of twenty-two / TO make my lady’s obsequies … -
“Break, break, break”
Break, break, break, / On thy cold gray stones, O sea! / And I would that my tongue could utter … -
Lavender
How prone we are to hide and hoard / Each little treasure time has stored, / To tell of happy hours! … -
What of the Darkness?
To the Happy Dead People / WHAT of the darkness? Is it very fair? / Are there great calms? and find we silence there? … -
Van Elsen
God spake three times and saved Van Elsen’s soul; / He spake by sickness first and made him whole; / Van Elsen heard him not, … -
“When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed”
[The Death of Lincoln.] / 1. / WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed, … -
“If I should die to-night”
IF I should die to-night, / My friends would look upon my quiet face / Before they laid it in its resting-place, …
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