Occupation: Poet Birth: October 23, 1844 Death: April 21, 1930
Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow..
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation..
There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thicke….
Unto us all our days are love's anniversaries, each one In turn hath ripened something of our happiness..
Since to be loved endures, To love is wise..
To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking..
The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the bl….
So sweet love seemed that April morn, when first we kissed beside the thorn, so strangely sweet, it was not strange we thought that love could never ….
But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be..
Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray..
I live in hope and that I think do all Who come into this world..
I have loved flowers that fade,Within whose magic tentsRich hues have marriage madeWith sweet unmemoried scents:A honeymoon delight,A joy of love at ….
When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying….
Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speed….
The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is rarely seen, nor strayeth far from his bed; The sh….
When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master..
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither ….
Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen..
O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss..
Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night i….
O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire..