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I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds
All the world's loves in its unworldliness.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.

Without love, our earth is a tomb

"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!

Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her

What if we still ride on, we two
With life for ever old yet new,
Changed not in kind but in degree,
The instant made eternity

Ambition is not what man does ... but what man would do.

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures
Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,
One to show a woman when he loves her.

Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!

I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.

Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.

Truth is within ourselves.

The good stars met in your horoscope,
Made you of spirit and fire and dew.

Oh, to be in England now that April's there.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Our aspirations are our responsibilities.

Talent should minister to genius.

Imperfection means perfection hid.

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

I have lived, And seen God's hand thro a life time, And all was for the best.

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed,
So shall they be fulfilled.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!

Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.

At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

Faultless to a fault.

Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.

Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

Other heights in other lives, God willing.

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

Death was past, life not come: so he waited.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

The power of the night, the press of the storm, the post of the foe; where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, yet, the strong man must go.

What youth deemed crystal,age finds out was dew

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.

And let them pass, as they will too soon,
With the bean-flowers' boon,
And the blackbird's tune,
And May, and June!

Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.

Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too
what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

And gain is gain, however small.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

When pain ends, gain ends too.

Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.

All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower.

Life is an empty dream.

Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

What joy is better than news of friends?

Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

---all's love, yet all's law.

But facts are facts and flinch not.

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

The world and life's too big to pass for a dream

I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.

grow old with me. the best is yet to be.
the last of life for which the first was made.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

Womanliness means only motherhood;
All love begins and ends there.

One taste of the old time sets all to rights.

Good to forgive, Best to forget.

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

Why stay we on earth except to grow?

Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.

What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

God is the perfect poet.

Earth is crammed with heavens.

What so wild as words are?

Why stay on the earth except to grow.

Smiling the boy fell dead.

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Any nose
May ravage with impunity a rose.

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

O world, as God has made it! All is beauty.

To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

The Best Is Yet To Be

Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride.

Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.

The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?

When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.

What's the earth
With all its art, verse, music, worth
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?