Occupation: Poet Birth: April 22, 1816 Death: September 6, 1902
What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?.
See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss..
What men call accident is God's own part..
Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men..
The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!.
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..
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence..
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art..
It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view..
Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God..
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial..
True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are….
As the master so the valet..
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to ….
Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think an….
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self..
Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts..
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light..
One thought settles a life, an immortality..
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade..
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel..