Occupation: Poet Birth: April 26, 1820 Death: February 12, 1871
I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done..
We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing whi….
There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth..
I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me..