Occupation: Poet Birth: April 5, 1837 Death: April 10, 1909
The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands..
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which..
His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep..
Time stoops to no man's lure..
In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part..
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….
In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you. Friendship's Garden ….
Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet..
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….
There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep..
Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she..
Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides..
Fear that makes faith may break faith..
Let weakness learn meekness..
Blossom by blossom the spring begins..
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….
If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather..
Today will die tomorrow..
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….
I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end.
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 ….