Occupation: Poet Birth: May 7, 1812 Death: December 12, 1889
I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but this know, I would rather submit to the worst ….
A pretty woman's worth some pains to see..
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls..
Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar..
All service is the same with God..
You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt..
Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men..
Our aspirations are our responsibilities..
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?.
Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again..
What a thing friendship is - World without end..
Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to..
Imperfection means perfection hid..
Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love..
They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store..
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold..
For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A ….
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character..
Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware..
God is the perfect poet..