They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old..

The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me..

Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust;….

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go..

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free..

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation ….

'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And there'….

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made..

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough..

Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land ….

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think..

To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplement….

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men ….

Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted st….

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man..

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time..

A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process..

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleas….

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow ….

They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's..