“Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven.” HeartHomeHandsGivenHeavenStarsBornAngelFlagsLitHueDomesValourAzureFree Heart Book:The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems Source: The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems
“Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?” HeartSoulShapesEternalStonesEternityCalmAll TimeGrievingBreastsLoved OnesEternal LifeEdenHueCleaving Author:Alphonse de Lamartine
“The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.” HumansHeartSufferingHeavenFireTearsInstrumentsStealingGoldenHuman LifeStringsThreadRainbowWovenRobesRadianceHueSpun Book:Poems Source: Poems