Occupation: Poet Birth: April 22, 1816 Death: September 6, 1902
Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers..
O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!.
Death is another life..
Life hath more awe than death..
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land..
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay..
The sole equality on earth is death..
If all were rich, gold would be penniless..
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, ….
All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good..
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..
Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things..
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them..
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….
None but the brave and beautiful can love..
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth..
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….
The heart is its own Fate..
Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud..
The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts..