If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. beauty
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. age
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee. love & Valentine's Day
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on. strength
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. business
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. beauty & trust
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. age & death
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. best
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. love
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. music
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? alone
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. alone
A minute's success pays the failure of years. failure & success
God is the perfect poet. poetry
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. strength
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. art
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. age
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character. faith, fear & hope
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. religion
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. Mother's Day
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. best & sympathy
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. art