Occupation: Poet Birth: May 7, 1812 Death: December 12, 1889
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay..
No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and….
Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!.
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!.
All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!.
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be..
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls..
Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!.
He guides me and the bird. In His good time!.
The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false..
Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep..
Never brag, never bluster, never blush..
Other heights in other lives, God willing..
Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides….
Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men..
To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day..
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would tri….
So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!.
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life..
No thought which ever stirred A human breast should be untold..
Since there my past life lies, why alter it?.