Love Poems – Page 2753
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“I gave my life for thee”
I Gave my life for thee, / My precious blood I shed / That thou might’st ransomed be, … -
“Jesus shall reign”
Jesus shall reign where’er the sun / Does his successive journeys run,— / His kingdom spread from shore to shore, … -
Messiah
A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil’s Pollio / YE nymphs of Solyma! begin the song: / To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong. … -
“My God, I love Thee”
From the Latin by Edward Caswall / MY God, I love thee! not because / I hope for heaven thereby; … -
Veni Creator Spiritus
From the Latin by John Dryden / [Sometimes attributed to the Emperor Charlemagne. The better opinion, however, inclines to Pope Gregory I., called the Great, as the author, and fixes its origin somewhere in the sixth century.] / CREATOR Spirit, by whose aid … -
Veni Sancte Spiritus
From the Latin by Catharine Winkworth / [Written in the tenth century by Robert II., the gentle son of Hugh Capet. It is often mentioned as second in rank to the Dies Iræ.] / COME, Holy Ghost! thou fire divine! … -
“O Fire of God, the Comforter”
From the Latin by Richard Frederick Littledale / “O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti” / O FIRE of God, the Comforter, O life of all that live, … -
The Holy Spirit
In the hour of my distress, / When temptations me oppress, / And when I my sins confess, … -
Hope of the Human Heart
From “Anima Mundi” / GOD is good, / And flight is destined for the callow wing, … -
What is Prayer?
Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, / Uttered or unexpressed— / The motion of a hidden fire …
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