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A terrible thing to be pestered with poets! But, alas, she is dumb, and the proverb holds good, She never will cry till she's out of the wood! - Fable for Critics (l. 73) [Poets] His Nature's a glass of champagne with the foam on 't, As tender as Fletcher, as witty as Beaumont; So his best things are done in the flash of the moment. - Fable for Critics (l. 834) [Character] They believed--faith, I'm puzzled--I think I may call Their belief a believing in nothing at all, Or something of that sort; I know they all went For a general union of total dissent. - Fable for Critics (l. 851) [Belief] From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the evil in its nature. - Festina Lente--Moral [Progress] Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul. - Fireside Travels [Apparel] Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime-- Not failure, but low aim is crime. - For an Autograph [Failure] Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'Tis his at last who says it best. - For an Autograph (st. 1) [Quotations] O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all shall say My Brother here, And hear My Son in heaven! - Godminster Chimes (st. 7) [Easter] These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, FitzGerald strung them on an English thread. - In a Copy of Omar Khayyam [Poetry] Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men. - Incident in a Railroad Car (st. 18) [Poetry] The chestnuts, lavish of their long-hid gold, To the faint Summer, beggared now and old, Pour back the sunshine hoarded 'neath her favoring eye. - Indian-Summer Reverie (st. 10) [Chestnut] His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle. - Introduction to The Biglow Papers (second series, The Courtin', st. 15) [Wooing] Earth's noblest thing, a Woman perfected. - Irene (l. 62) [Women] It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. - Legend of Brittany (pt. I, st. 35) [Cheerfulness] A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. - Legend of Brittany (pt. II, st. 43) [Motherhood] The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. - Longing [Desire] True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world. - Love (l. 1) [Love] Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings. - Memorial Verses--To the Memory of Hood (st. 4) [Freedom] O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee To make the charmed body Almost like spirit be, And give it some faint glimpses Of immortality. - Midnight [Midnight] The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go. - Midnight (st. 3) [Fireflies] Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near. - My Love (st. 1) [Love] It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested. - My Study Windows--Abraham Lincoln [Character] The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. - My Study Windows--Abraham Lincoln [Faith] He gives us the very quintessence of perception. - My Study Windows--Coleridge [Perception] A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. - My Study Windows--Garfield [Greatness] Displaying page 10 of 14 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10] 11 12 13 14
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