Occupation: Poet Birth: February 22, 1819 Death: August 12, 1891
The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its s….
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, som….
One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world..
We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, ….
Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run..
A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache..
I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does e….
Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same..
Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty..
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character..
O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change..
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace..
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..
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst..
Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?.
The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow..
Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands..
Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave..
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!.
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….
They have rights who dare maintain them..