Lofty designs must close in like effects..

Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you..

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!.

And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable..

That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound Three times ….

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite..

I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on..

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft..

Once more on my adventure brave and new..

Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Ita….

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters..

A man in armor is his armor's slave..

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?.

I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-b….

Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant se….

I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves The world; and, vainly favored, it repays The day-long glo….

"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist..

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists..

How very hard it is to be a Christian!.

Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any ….