Sacred Poems
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“The soul of man createth its own destiny.”
Source: Sacred Poems
Source: Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson
“And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.”
Source: The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis
“The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway.”
Source: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe
“But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!”
Source: The poetical works of N.P. Willis
Source: The poetical works of N.P. Willis
Source: Sacred Poems
“The taste forever refines in the study of women.”
Source: Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure: Written in the Intervals of More Hurried Literary Labor
Source: Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson
Source: The poetical works of N.P. Willis
“Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.”
“I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.”
Source: Fugitive Poetry
“The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.”
Source: Fugitive Poetry
“There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.”
Source: Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure: Written in the Intervals of More Hurried Literary Labor
Source: Poems of Early and After Years
“Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.”
“Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.”
“Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.”
Source: Fugitive Poetry
Source: The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis
Source: The Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Humorous
“A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.”
Source: Melanie and other poems. Edited by Barry Cornwall, i.e. B. W. Procter
Source: Sacred Poems
Source: Poets of the world: Nathaniel Willis
Source: Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson
Source: Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis ...
Source: Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis ...
“The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.”
“T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.”
Source: Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson
Source: The poetical works of N.P. Willis
“It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.”
Source: Poems of Early and After Years
“The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.”
Source: Summer cruise in the Mediterranean: on board an American frigate
Source: Sacred Poems
“The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.”
Source: The poetical works of N.P. Willis
“He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.”
Source: The poetical works of N.P. Willis
Source: Sacred Poems