Occupation: Poet Birth: December 16, 1859 Death: November 13, 1907
Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird..
The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessnes….
A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer ….
The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world..
The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose..
There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blunder….
So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, ….
Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more into the body and ….
Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola..
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident..
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind p….
Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee..
Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?.
But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities u….
In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill..
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star..
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven..
Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star..
Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps..
The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl..
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own..