love poems

When those we love are present to the sight,
When those we love hear fond affection's words,
The heart is cheerful, as in morning light
The merry song of early-wakened birds:
And oh! the atmosphere of home—how bright
It floats around us, when we sit together
Under a bower of vines in Summer weather,
Or round the hearth-stone in a Winter's night!
This is a picture, not by Fancy drawn—
The eve of life contrasted with its dawn—
A gray-haired man—a girl with sunny eyes;
He seems to speak, and laughing, she replies—

1. Our kind Creator formed our voice, To
2. Music, with all its heavenly charms, In-
speak his praise in grateful joys; His saints on earth
vites us to our Saviour's arms; Where millions par
and saints above, Concordant sing his boundless love.
doned by his blood, In sweetest praise adore their God.

3. When parents lead in sacred songs,
Children pursue with cheerful tongues;
'Till true harmonic chords excite
The whole to joy's sublime delight.

4. For heaven itself consists in praise,
Expressed the most delightful ways;

I have a heritage of joy
That yet I must not see:
The Father's hand that makes it mine
Is keeping it for me.

I have a certainty of love
That sets my heart at rest;
A calm assurance for to-day
That to be thus is best.

And a new song is in my mouth,
To long loved music set,—
Glory to thee for all the grace
I have not tasted yet!

Glory to thee for strength withheld,
For want and weakness known,—
The fear that sends me to thy breast
For what is most mine own.

Cross of Jesus,—blessed symbol
Of his sacrifice and death;
Voice of love, and mercy's message,
Born of his expiring breath.
Here the world may bring its sorrow,
Here the world may leave its sin;
Tribes and nations seek a refuge,
Find the door, and enter in.
Prince and beggar, man and maiden,
Find alike a common plea;
And the trumpets of salvation
Sound a welcome far and free.
Here, O Christ, thy love adoring,
I would thy salvation see;
And amid redemption's story,
Wonder thou shouldst die for me.

‘Arise, arise, you pretty maiden,
Arise, arise, it is almost day,
And come unto your bedroom window
And hear what your true love do say.’

‘Begone, begone, you'll awake my father,
My mother she can quickly hear;
Go and tell your tales unto some other
And whisper softly in their ear.’

‘I won't begone for I love no other,
You are the girl that I adore;
It's I, my dear, who love you dearly,
It's the pains of love that have brought me here.’

Then the old man heard the couple talking,

Who shall lay bare love's inmost meaning, who
Reveal the sovereign splendor on its throne,
Or utter forth in language the unknown!—
Old is all language, but all love is new.
How may I tell you of this love that to
Your bosom draws me from my very own,
And wakes me to one need, and one alone,—
O love, the need to be reborn from you!

There is no word whereby love may declare
His holy will; but in the breathless deed
Of adoration, in the primal prayer
At the belovèd breast, he tells his need

Thou knowest not what “hopeless love” may be?
How shouldst thou know, being worthy of all love?
How might thy merit ever tower above
In hopeless inaccessibility?
Free art thou as the wind that loves the sea,
The little hills and every trembling grove,
But like the wind, 'tis thine as well to rove
High heaven in calm and sure serenity.

Faint for thy breath a woodland pool lies still,
And cloistered round with leafage grows forlorn;
Rank weeds upon her marges do her ill,
Who once by thy swift couriers was borne

Once I thought to die for love,
Till I found that women prove
Traitors in their smiling.
They say men unconstant be,
But themselves love change we see,
Till new grows old, and old grows stale, and all is but beguiling.

What right have I to hold back Love so late,
When we should long have gone to rest?
But we were pelted by the storms of Fate
From where we rashly built our nest.
One there is yet who drives us not away,
But warms our hands in her's this winter day.

Like a blind child is the loving heart
In its tenderness & trust,
Like a poor blind beggar maid
That curtseys for a crust.
The simplest thing that has an eye
May lead it to its wrong
But o! it is the richest [?]
That doth to earth belong.