Occupation: Poet Birth: April 5, 1824 Death: August 22, 1874
Sister Simplicitie! Sing, sing a song to me,-- Sing me to sleep! Some legend low and long, Slow as the summer song Of the dull Deep..
It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well..
Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice..
It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true..
The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of small, legitimate successes. By le….
He who, being bold For life to come, is false to the past sweet Of mortal life, hath killed the world above. For why to live again if not to meet?….
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification..