Occupation: Poet Birth: June 28, 1844 Death: August 10, 1890
Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a ….
Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid..
Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart..
How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we tw….
For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, ….
The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ..
Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings..
The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave..
The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side..
Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end..
... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road..
It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle fo….
Each heart holds the secret: 'Kindness' is the word..
The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove..
The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Helle….
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?.
For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year..
When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near..
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledge….
For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips..
I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land..