Love Poems – Page 2763
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Small Beginnings
A Traveller through a dusty road strewed acorns on the lea; / And one took root and sprouted up, and grew into a tree. / Love sought its shade, at evening time, to breath its early vows; … -
“I would I were an excellent divine”
I Would I were an excellent divine, / That had the Bible at my fingers’ ends; / That men might hear out of this mouth of mine … -
The Pastor’s Reverie
The Pastor sits in his easy-chair, / With the Bible upon his knee. / From gold to purple the clouds in the west … -
The Two Rabbis
The Rabbi NATHAN, twoscore years and ten, / Walked blameless through the evil world, and then / Just as the almond blossomed in his hair, … -
Judge Not
Judge not; the workings of his brain / And of his heart thou canst not see; / What looks to thy dim eyes a stain, … -
To the Unco Guid
“My son, these maxims make a rule / And lump them aye thegither: / The Rigid Righteous is a fool, … -
“Stone the woman, let the man go free”
Yes, stone the woman, let the man go free! / Draw back your skirts, lest they perchance may touch / Her garment as she passes; but to him … -
In Prison
God pity the wretched prisoners, / In their lonely cells to-day! / Whatever the sins that tripped them, … -
Conscience and Remorse
“good-bye,” I said to my Conscience— / “Good-bye for aye and aye;” / And I put her hands off harshly, … -
Found Wanting
Belshazzar had a letter,— / He never had but one; / Belshazzar’s correspondent …
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