Occupation: Poet Birth: May 7, 1812 Death: December 12, 1889
Life is an empty dream..
All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow..
Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear..
Earth is crammed with heavens..
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!.
When pain ends, gain ends too..
Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person..
Who knows but the world may end tonight.
Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I..
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made..
What joy is better than the news of friends?.
We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Stil….
One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it..
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower..
If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that ….
Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl..
When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?.
I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced the….
Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?.
You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live..
Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more..