Occupation: Poet Birth: May 7, 1812 Death: December 12, 1889
Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage..
All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board whi….
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made..
Night conceals a world but reveals a universe..
Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops..
It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad..
The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth..
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not..
Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!.
All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem; In the core of one pea….
Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last..
There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!.
Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart t….
I do what many dream of, all their lives.
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also..
What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May….
Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks..
As if true pride Were not also humble!.
Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now..
'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd..
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?.