Poems About Faith

A BirthdayMy heart is like a singing bird Christina Rossetti Lyric Crossing the BarSunset and evening star, Alfred Tennyson Lyric Death Be Not Proud (Holy Sonnet 10)Death, be not proud, though some have called thee John Donne Sonnet Death Is Nothing at AllDeath is nothing at all. DesiderataGo placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –I heard a fly buzz when I died; Emily Dickinson Lyric In Memoriam A.H.H. (Selected Excerpts)Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Alfred Tennyson Elegy In the Bleak MidwinterIn the bleak mid-winter Christina Rossetti Lyric Journey of the Magi‘A cold coming we had of it, T. S. Eliot Dramatic Monologue Love Came Down at ChristmasLove came down at Christmas, Christina Rossetti Lyric Lycidas (Selected Excerpts)Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more John Milton On His Blindness (Sonnet XIX)When I consider how my light is spent John Milton Sonnet On the Morning of Christ’s NativityThis is the month and this the happy morn, John Milton Ode The Burning BabeAs I in hoary winter’s night Lyric The Hollow MenMistah Kurtz—he dead. T. S. Eliot Free Verse The Hound of HeavenI fled Him, down the nights and down the days; Ode The LambLittle Lamb, who made thee William Blake Lyric The MagiNow as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, W. B. Yeats Lyric The OxenChristmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. Thomas Hardy Lyric Up-HillDoes the road wind up-hill all the way? Christina Rossetti Lyric