But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!.

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!.

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse..

The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods..

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring..

The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it bea….

Pens carry further than rifled cannon..

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably bea….

He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own..

The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in mea….

To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them..

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance..

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain..

Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, an….

Love is better than Fame..

Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,-- Dying hectic of leav….

Peace the offspring is of Power..

Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity..

Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee..

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him..

Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return..