Occupation: Poet Birth: April 5, 1837 Death: April 10, 1909
Blossom by blossom the spring begins..
If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather..
If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And f….
I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end.
Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she..
In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part..
For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that ….
Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were on….
A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet..
Today will die tomorrow..
Fear that makes faith may break faith..
The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands..
Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides..
Let weakness learn meekness..
I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget..
I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blow….
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That de….
There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep..
His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep..
Time stoops to no man's lure..
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which..