Occupation: Poet Birth: April 22, 1816 Death: September 6, 1902
Every believer is God's miracle..
Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, come….
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence..
Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen..
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love..
Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art..
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial..
Surely the stars are images of love..
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art..
Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows..
None but the brave and beautiful can love..
Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor ….
Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God..
Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, ….
Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses..
Music tells no truths..
The temples perish, but the God still lives..
England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!.
All things that speak of heaven speak of peace..
He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be..
Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity..