White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice..

Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of….

Truth is within ourselves..

Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like..

O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead..

Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?..

Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy..

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations..

It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad..

If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens..

My care is for myself; Myself am whole and sole reality..

Never the time and the place And the loved one all together..

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature..

The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom..

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever..

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planne….

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do..

Smiling the boy fell dead..

God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that..

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round..

If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far..