Occupation: Poet Birth: November 3, 1794 Death: June 12, 1878
Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prej….
A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians..
Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down..
And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief..
Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page..
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion..
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings..
There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light..
Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile..
The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies..
Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson..
The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the characte….
I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn..
Follow thou thy choice..
Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place..
The groves were God's first temples..
Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues That live among the clouds, and flush the air, Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews..
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all politica….
Tender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak..
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night..
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language..