Love Poems – Page 2765
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“I saw Thee”
“When thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.”—JOHN i. 48. / I SAW thee when, as twilight fell, / And evening lit her fairest star, … -
Losse in Delayes
Shun delayes, they breed remorse, / Take thy time while time doth serve thee, / Creeping snayles have weakest force, … -
The Seed Growing Secretly
Dear, secret greenness! nurst below / Tempests and winds and winter nights! / Vex not, that but One sees thee grow; … -
Patience
She hath no beauty in her face / Unless the chastened sweetness there, / And meek long-suffering, yield a grace … -
Sometime
Sometime, when all life’s lessons have been learned, / And sun and stars forevermore have set, / The things which our weak judgments here have spurned, … -
Father, Thy Will be Done!
He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, / Alike they ’re needful for the flower; / And joys and tears alike are sent … -
Lines found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster
E’en such is time; that takes in trust / Our youth, our joys, our all we have, / And pays us but with earth and dust; … -
My Ain Countree
“But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly.”—HEBREWS xi. 16. / I ’M far frae my hame, an’ I ’m weary aftenwhiles, / For the langed-for hame-bringing, an’ my Father’s welcome smiles; … -
Coming
“At even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning.”—MARK xiii. 35. / “IT may be in the evening, / When the work of the day is done, … -
Euthanasia
Methinks, when on the languid eye / Life’s autumn scenes grow dim; / When evening’s shadows veil the sky; …
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