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Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile. - [Vanity] We are never happy: we can only remember that we were so once. - [Happiness] Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles. - [Winter] Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One who sees the end from the beginning; He shall yet unravel all. - [Life] The saddest thing that can befall a soul. Is when it loses faith in God and woman. - A Life Drama (sc. 12) [Faith] A poem round and perfect as a star. - A Life Drama (sc. 2) [Poetry] In winter, when the dismal rain Came down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines. - A Life Drama (sc. 2) [Winter] Some books are drenched sands, On which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps, Like a wrecked argosy. - A Life Drama (sc. 2) [Books] Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire. - A Life Drama (sc. 2, l. 225) [Martyrdom] The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, "Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide." - A Life Drama (sc. 4) [Sunset] The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. - A Life Drama (sc. 8) [Evening] Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May. - A Life Drama (sc. 8, l. 65) [April] The trees were gazing up into the sky, Their bare arms stretched in prayer for the snows. - A Life-Drama (sc. 2) [Trees] Each time we love, We turn a nearer and a broader mark To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes. - City Poems--A Boy's Dream [Sorrow] We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass; That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. - City Poems--A Boy's Poem (pt. III) [Forgetfulness : Death] If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness. - Dreamthorp--On the Writing of Essays [Statesmanship] To our graves we walk In the thick footprints of departed men. - Horton (l. 570) [Death] We have two lives; The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars. - Horton (l. 76) [Life] We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more. - Life Drama (sc. IV) [Meeting] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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