Occupation: Poet Birth: April 22, 1816 Death: September 6, 1902
Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sun what is light; Ask what is darkness of the night; Ask sin ….
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow..
All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good..
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel..
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn..
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light..
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence..
A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure..
The ground of all great thoughts is sadness..
Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation..
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river re….
He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow..
Life is as serious a thing as death..
Love spends his all, and still hath store..
Evil and good are God's right hand and left..
Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all l….
The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!.
If all were rich, gold would be penniless..
The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven..
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noble….
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures..