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And half in shade and half in sun; The Rose sat in her bower, With a passionate thrill in her crimson heart. - Poems of the Orient--The Poet in the East (st. 5) [Roses] The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years. - Poet's Journal--Third Evening [Poets] For love's humility is Love's true pride. - Poet's Journal--Third Evening--The Mother [Love] I know I am--that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn. - Prince Deukalion (act IV) [Bliss] The hearts that dare are quick to feel; The hands that wound are soft to heal. - Soldiers of Peace [Character] And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer. - Temptation of Hassan Ben Khaled (st. 4) [Rest] Next to thee, O fair gazelle, O Beddowee girl, beloved so well; Next to the fearless Nedjidee, Whose fleetness shall bear me again to thee; Next to ye both I love the Palm, With his leaves of beauty, his fruit of balm; Next to ye both I love the Tree Whose fluttering shadow wraps us three With love, and silence, and mystery! - The Arab to the Palm [Palm] A waft from the roadside bank Tells where the wild rose nods. - The Guests of Night [Wild Roses] The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods. - The Guests of Night [Goldenrods] When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: . . . . And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now! - The Lost May [May] Twas glory once to be a Roman; She makes it glory, now, to be a man. - The National Ode [Glory] Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. - The Picture of St. John (bk. III, st. 84) [Death] There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth! - The Picture of St. John (bk. IV, st. 86) [Success] Ancient Pines, Ye bear no record of the years of man. Spring is your sole historian. - The Pine Forest of Monterey [Pine] Stately Pines, But few more years around the promontory Your chant will meet the thunders of the sea. - The Pine Forest of Monterey [Pine] Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest. - The Poet's Journal--First Evening--Conclusion [Solitude] Because the gift of Song was chiefly lent, To give consoling music for the joys We lack, and not for those which we possess. - The Poet's Journal--Third Evening [Songs] But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me. - The Poet's Journal--Third Evening [Childhood] Shelved around us lie The mummied authors. - The Poet's Journal--Third Evening [Libraries] And yonder fly his scattered golden arrows, And smite the hills with day. - The Poet's Journal--Third Evening--Morning [Morning : Sunrise] But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night! - The Poets' Journal--The Garden of Roses (st. 14) [Lilies] Shrimps and the delicate periwinkle Such are the sea-fruits lasses love: Ho! to your nets till the blue stars twinkle, And the shutterless cottages gleam above! - The Shrimp-Gatherers [Fishing] Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest Your truth and valor wearing: The bravest are the tenderest,-- The loving are the daring. - The Song of the Camp [Soldiers] We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run? - The Waves [Ocean] By Wisdom wealth is won; But riches purchased wisdom yet for none. - The Wisdom of Ali [Wisdom] Displaying page 3 of 4 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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