Occupation: Poet Birth: May 7, 1812 Death: December 12, 1889
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome..
It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest….
The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!.
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!.
In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now..
Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason..
Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!.
There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be go….
I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be..
I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know..
Good to forgive, Best to forget..
All's love, yet all's law..
God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod..
In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus w….
In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe..
From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea..
Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart..
At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now..
There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believ….
Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness..
Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost..