Love is like the wild rose-briar;Friendship like the holly-tree.The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,But which will bloom most constantly?The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,Its summer blos...
The bustle in a houseThe morning after deathIs solemnest of industriesEnacted upon earth,--The sweeping up the heart,And putting love awayWe shall not want to use againUntil eternity
A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within.
I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Fi...
An ear can break a human heartAs quickly as a spear,
A great hope fell
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
That I shall love always, I argue thee
How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;Whose coat of elemental brownA passing universe put on;And independent as the sun,...
Heart, we will forget him,You and I, tonight!
A word is deadWhen it is said,Some say. I say it justBegins to liveThat day.
Or help one fainting RobinUnto his Nest againI shall not live in vain.
To shut your eyes is to travel.
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle gr...
The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care
For love is immortality.
One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — One need not be a House — The Brain has Corridors — surpassing Material Place —