Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tum….

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it..

It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century..

Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart….

To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to wha….

This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur..

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes..

A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity..

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote: For him her Old World moulds aside she threw And,….

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same..

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates..

The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few….

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with….

May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind..

Humbleness is always grace; always dignity.

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature..

Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the natural way of living..

Those who love are but one step from heaven..

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty..

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings..

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is..