University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
Poems by Henry Septimus Sutton

Sutton, Henry Septimus

collapse section 
POEMS
  
TO MY FATHER.
  
EUGENE.
  
LOSS.
  
THE SKY AT NIGHT.
  
PYRRHO.
  
UNDER THE ALDER-TREE.
  
THE DAISY.
  
SOLITUDE.
  
WILL AND WAY.
  
THE STAR.
  
MOUNT PERILOUS OF PRIDE.
  
YOUNG LOVE.
  
‘A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM.’
  
LIFE, NOT DEATH.
  
MAN.
  
FOR THE DESOLATE.
  
TO A TRUE FRIEND.
  
THE FLOWER-GARDEN OF GOD.
  
TO S. N. F.
  
HEMLOCK STONE.
  
HERESY.
  
WOMAN.
  
ALADDIN.
  
CIRCLES.
  
SORROW.
  
THE ARBOUR.
  
WILFORD BOAT.
  
WHO SHALL DELIVER?
  
A DREAM OF THE SEA FOAM.
  
‘THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST IN HIM.’
  
LOVE'S PENALTY.
collapse section 
A PREACHER'S SOLILOQUY AND SERMON.
  
THE SOLILOQUY.
  
THE SERMON.
  
LOVE.
  
A LOVE-LETTER.
collapse section 
CLIFTON GROVE GARLAND.
  
TO ELIZA SUTTON.
collapse section 
CLIFTON GROVE GARLAND.
 I. 
I. THE WALK.
 II. 
II. THE SEAT IN THE GROVE.
 III. 
III. THE MUSING HOUR.
 IV. 
IV. SEDLEY GROVE.
 V. 
V. THE WALK RESUMED.
 VI. 
VI. THE LOCAL CLASSICS.
 VII. 
VII. THE FAIR MAID OF CLIFTON.
 VIII. 
VIII. CONCLUSION.
collapse section 
ROSE'S DIARY.
  
TO H. S. S.
  
ROSE'S DIARY.
collapse section 
FUNEREAL WREATHS.
  
EDWARD BROTHERTON.
  
J. B.
  
B. M. B.
  
H. P.
collapse section 
GLEANINGS.
  
TO MARY SOPHIA SUTTON.
collapse section 
[subsection]
  
A HYMN OF CREATION.
  
A NEW YEAR'S GIFT.
  
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
  
THE EARTH DEFACED.
  
THE BATTLE OF GOD.
  
THE BEST OF IT.
  
THE SIGHT OF GOD
  
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
  
THE REASON OF IT.
  
THE BRAGGART MOON.
  
‘THAT THY WAY MAY BE KNOWN UPON EARTH; THY SAVING HEALTH AMONG ALL NATIONS.’
  
THE CROCUS.
  
AN UNSENT FAREWELL.
  
LOVE'S FREEMASONRY.
  
LOVE ETERNAL.
  
THE SNOWDROP.
  
THE SHEPHERDESS.
  
A RAILWAY RIDE.
  
TO A. M. W.
  
THE DRINK DRAGON.
  
THE MAINE LAW-HAMMER.

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section
previous section Poems by Henry Septimus Sutton
next section
228

LOVE ETERNAL.

Love, if I love thee, 'tis because I need
Not eyes to gaze into; not lips to kiss;
Not a soft breast for solace; not the bliss
Of being loved while loving;—this, indeed,
I thank thee that thou giv'st; but I should bleed
Down in my heart for loving so amiss
If I had only loved thee, Love, for this—
Sure to shake off some day like idle weed
Entangled round my foot upon the shore.
No, if I love thee, Love, it is because
Beauty that is eternal I adore,
And must pursue it, whereso'er it draws.
And lo! I travel on; I may not pause;
With thee I travel on for evermore.
previous section Poems by Henry Septimus Sutton
next section