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This compilation includes a diverse range of poems, showcasing the author's poetic style and thematic concerns across various genres and historical periods.
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“Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.”
“In your patience ye are strong.”
“The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.”
“Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.”
“Books succeed; and lives fail.”
“He lives most life whoever breathes most air.”
“I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.”
“Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.”
“Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.”
“A mother's pride, a father's joy.”
“Astrologers that future fates foreshow.”
“Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.”
“Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.”
“Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?”
“For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.”
“Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.”
“An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.”
“It is well to lie fallow for a while.”
“A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.”
“What thought can think, another thought can mend.”
“Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.”
“Give us enough but with a sparing hand.”
“But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.”
“Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.”
“A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.”
“Whoso loves, believes in the impossible”
“When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.”
“Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.”
“When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .”
“Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."”
“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”
“The essence of all beauty, I call love.”
“We are ourselves our happiness.”