Occupation: Poet Birth: June 10, 1832 Death: March 24, 1904
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now t….
No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers..
Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers.
There is no caste in blood..
Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light..
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, f….
Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting stra….
Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and ….
A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field..
One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing..
Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life..
Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!.
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison..
Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile..
Yet who shall shut out Fate?.
That what will come, and must come, shall come well..
Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood..
Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong..
Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind..
We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob,….
Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us..