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With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her--ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else? - Proem (l. 87) [Poets] But let me silent be: For silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above. - Speech of Love (st. 4) [Silence] Children are the keys of Paradise, They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives, are prayer. - The Children's Prayer [Childhood] If there is anything that will endure The eye of God, because it still is pure, It is the spirit of a little child, Fresh from his hand, and therefore undefiled. - The Children's Prayer [Childhood] No Caesar he whom we lament A Man without a precedent, Sent, it would seem to do His work, and perish, too. - The Man We Mourn Today [Lincoln, Abraham] We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers. - The Squire of Low Degree--The Princess Answers (I, l. 13) [Desire] Not that the heavens the little can make great, But many a man has lived an age too late. - To Edmund Clarence Stedman [Greatness] She wears a rose in her hair, At the twilight's dreamy close: Her face is fair,--how fair Under the rose! - Under the Rose [Beauty] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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