Love Poems – Page 2761
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Self-Inquiry
Let not soft slumber close my eyes, / Before I ’ve recollected thrice / The train of action through the day! … -
The Three Enemies
The Flesh / “sweet, thou art pale.” / “More pale to see, … -
“Said I not so?”
Said I not so,—that I would sin no more? / Witness, my God, I did; / Yet I am run again upon the score: … -
“Nothing but leaves”
Nothing but leaves; the spirit grieves / Over a wasted life; / Sin committed while conscience slept, … -
The Cry of the Human
“there is no God,” the foolish saith, / But none, “There is no sorrow”; / And nature oft the cry of faith … -
The Sifting of Peter
A Folk-Song / “Behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.”—LUKE xxii. 31. / IN Saint Luke’s Gospel we are told … -
Vanity
The Sun comes up and the sun goes down, / And day and night are the same as one; / The year grows green, and the year grows brown, … -
Different Minds
Some murmur when their sky is clear / And wholly bright to view, / If one small speck of dark appear … -
My Recovery
From the German by W. Taylor / RECOVERY,—daughter of Creation too, / Though not for immortality designed,— … -
The Ladder of Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, / That of our vices we can frame / A ladder, if we will but tread …
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