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Fill the cup and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn; Every minute dies a man, Every minute one is born. - [Proverbs] For man is man, and master of his fate. - [Proverbs] God and Nature met in light. - [Light] God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown to ripeness, that on which it throve falls off, and love is left alone. - [Love] Half light, half shade, she stood a sight to make an old man young. - [Beauty] Happy he with such a mother! Faith in womankind beats with his blood, and trust in all things high comes easy to him; and though he trip and fall he shall not blind his soul with clay. - [Trust] He frothed his bumpers to the brim; A jollier year we shall not see. But tho his eyes are waxing dim, And tho his foes speak ill of him He was a friend to me. Old Year, you shall not die; We did so laugh and cry with you, I've half a mind to die with you, Old Year, if you must die. * * * * * His face is growing sharp and thin. Alack! Our friend is gone. Close up his eyes; tie up his chin; Step from the corpse, and let him in That standeth there alone, And waiteth at the door; There's a new foot on the floor, My friend, And a new face at the door, My friend, A new face at the door. - [Old Year] He shall find the rugged thistle bursting Into glossy purples, that outredden All voluptuous garden roses. - [Proverbs] His essences turn the live air sick. - [Proverbs] His gain is loss; for he that wrongs his friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself a judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned. - [Friends] Home they brought him slain with spears, They brought him home at even-fall. - version of song in "The Princess", canto V, as published in the "Selections" (1865) [Soldiers] Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good; Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. - [Proverbs] I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere. - [Worth] I sit within a helmless bark. - [Proverbs] I take possession of man's mind and deed, I care not what the sects may brawl; I sit as God, holding no form of creed, But contemplating all. - [Religion] In lands of palm and southern pine; in lands of palm, of orange-blossom, of olive, aloe, and maize, and wine. - [Trees] In robe and crown the king stepped down, To meet and greet her on her way. - [Proverbs] In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. - [Spring] It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - [Loss : Love] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year. - [Matrimony] Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood. - [Kindness] Let never maiden think, however fair, She is not fairer in new clothes than old. - [Proverbs] Let observation with extended observation observe extensively. - paraphrasing Johnson, see Locker-Lampson's "Recollections of a tour with Tennyson", in "Memoirs of Tennyson" by his son, II, 73 [Traveling] Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. - [Evolution] Like a dog he hunts in dreams. - [Proverbs] Displaying page 2 of 18 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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