Occupation: Poet Birth: April 22, 1816 Death: September 6, 1902
Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin..
When pride thaws, look for floods..
The value of a thought cannot be told..
Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity..
All things that speak of heaven speak of peace..
None but God can fill the perfect whole..
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them..
O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!.
None but the brave and beautiful can love..
How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!.
Naught but God Can satisfy the soul..
The sole equality on earth is death..
The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven..
Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things..
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade..
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ign….
Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of gra….
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, ….
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay..
The strongest passion which I have is honor..
Doubt is the shadow of truth..