Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
So free we seem so fettered fast we are!
I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
Strike when thou wilt the hour of rest but let my last days be my best.
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made ...
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,One task more declin'd, one more foot-path ontrod,One more devil's triumph and sorrow for angels,One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something.
I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.
Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.
Without love, our earth is a tomb
I.My first thought was, he lied in every word,That hoary cripple, with malicious eyeAskance to watch the workings of his lieOn mine, and mouth scarce able to affordSuppression of the glee, that pursed...
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.