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Death is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. - [Death] Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. - [Failure] How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul. - [Frugality] Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it. - [Life] My friends are my estate. - [Friends] Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. - [Dawn] That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet. - [Life] The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind. - [Truth] They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell. - [Dogs] To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. - [Living] We turn not older with years, but newer every day. - [Aging] We'd never know how high we are, till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky. - [Adversity] He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings! - A Book [Books] There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul. - A Book [Books] And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours But large enough for me. - A Prayer [Heaven] Because I could not stop for Death-- He kindly stopped for me-- The Carriage held but just Ourselves-- And Immortality. - Because I could not stop for Death [Death] A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own! - Collected Poems (The Centenary Edition) [Nature : Spring] If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again, I shall not live in vain. - Life [Help] A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own! - No. 1333 [Spring] There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes-- - No. 258 [Winter] The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die. - Poems (IX), (ed. 1891) [Heart] The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy. - Poems (V) [Bees] God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven at last, I'm going all along. - Poems (VI, A Service of Song) [Preaching] Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'Tis the majority In this, as all, prevails Assent, and you are sane; Demur,--you're straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain. - Poems (XI (1891 ed.)) [Insanity] The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies! - Poems (XIX, second series (ed. 1891)) [Sky] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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