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God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star. - [Silence] Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain. - [Knowledge] Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell! - [Pride] Soul-deep eyes of darkest night. - [Eyes] The biggest dog has been a pup. - [Dogs] The maiden moon in her mantle of blue. - [Moon] They are fair resting-places For the dear weary dead on their way up to heaven. - [Clouds] In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not. - Byron (st. 1) [Character] All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour, She stood as a marble would stand, Then the Saviour bent down, and the Saviour In silence wrote on in the sand. - Charity [Charity] O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret. - Charity [Women] I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine. - England (1871, introduction) [Kisses] Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. - Even So (st. 35) [Death] Time, eftsoon will tumble All of us together like leaves in a gust, Humbled indeed down into the dust. - Fallen Leaves Down into the Dust (st. 5) [Time] Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain. - For Princess Maud [Compensation] "All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years; But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears. - For Those Who Fail [Failure] Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair It has mantled a world. - From Sea to Sea (st. 4) [Darkness] 'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven. - Ina (sc. 2) [Midnight] Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards! - Ina (sc. 3) [Cowards] Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality. - Ina (sc. 4, l. 273) [Fame] Better sit still where born, I say, Wed one sweet woman and lover her well, Love and be loved in the old East way, Drink sweet waters, and dream in a spell, Than to wander in search of the Blessed Isles, And to sail the thousands of watery miles In search of love, and find you at last On the edge of the world, and a curs'd outcast. - Pace Implora [Traveling] And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray; For all you can hold in your cold, dead hand Is what you have given away. . . . . He gave with a zest and he gave his best; Give him the best to come. - Peter Cooper [Gifts] I rest content; I kiss your eyes, I kiss your hair in my delight: I kiss my hand and say "Good-night." - Songs of the Sun-Lands--Islands of the Amazons (pt. V, introd. st.) [Kisses] The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow. - Songs of the Sun-Lands--Isles of the Amazons (pt. III, st. 41) [Butterflies] The east is blossoming! Yea, a rose, Vast as the heavens, soft as a kiss, Sweet as the presence of woman is, Rises and reaches, and widens and grows Large and luminous up from the sea, And out of the sea, as a blossoming tree, Richer and richer, so higher and higher, Deeper and deeper it takes its hue; Brighter and brighter it reaches through The space of heaven and the place of stars, Till all is as rich as a rose can be, And my rose-leaves fall into billows of fire. - Sunrise in Venice [Sunrise] The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men. - The Bravest Battle--Mothers of Men [Motherhood]
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