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Saw life steadily and saw it whole. - Sonnet to a Friend, said of Sophocles [Life] No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing--only he His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life. - Sonnet--Immortality [Immortality] The kings of modern thought are dumb. - Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse [Thought] Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. - Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse [World] But each day brings from its pretty dust Our soon choked souls to fill. - Switzerland (pt. VI) [Soul] Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again. - Terrace at Berne [Meeting] On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou. - The Church of Brou (II, st. 3) [Sabbath] God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore. - The Divinity (st. 3) [God] Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie, Hush, ye will say, it is eternity! This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there The columns of the heavenly palaces. - The Tomb [Eternity] Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires. - Youth and Calm (l. 19) [Youth] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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