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“Ne te quaesiveris extra.” “Man is his own star; and the soul that canRender an honest and perfect man,Commands all light, all influence, all fate;Nothing to him falls early or too late.Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,Our fatal shadows that walk...

The wings of Time are black and white,Pied with morning and with night.Mountain tall and ocean deepTrembling balance duly keep.In changing moon, in tidal wave,Glows the feud of Want and Have.Gauge of more and less through spaceElectric star and pencil plays....

The living Heaven thy prayers respect,House at once and architect,Quarrying man’s rejected hours,Builds therewith eternal towers;Sole and self-commanded works,Fears not undermining days,Grows by decays,And, by the famous might that lurksIn reaction and recoi...

“I was as a gem concealed;Me my burning ray revealed.”Koran Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each often. Nature, uncontainable, flowing, forelooking, in the first sentiment of kindness anticipates already a benevolence which shall l...

A ruddy drop of manly bloodThe surging sea outweighs,The world uncertain comes and goes,The lover rooted stays.I fancied he was fled,And, after many a year,Glowed unexhausted kindlinessLike daily sunrise there.My careful heart was free again, —O friend, my b...

Theme no poet gladly sung,Fair to old and foul to young,Scorn not thou the love of parts,And the articles of arts.Grandeur of the perfect sphereThanks the atoms that cohere. What right have I to write on Prudence, whereof I have little,and that of the neg...

“Paradise is under the shadow of swords.”Mahomet Ruby wine is drunk by knaves,Sugar spends to fatten slaves,Rose and vine-leaf deck buffoons;Thunderclouds are Jove’s festoons,Drooping oft in wreaths of dreadLightning-knotted round his head;The hero is not f...

"But souls that of his own good life partake,He loves as his own self; dear as his eyeThey are to Him: He’ll never them forsake:When they shall die, then God himself shall die:They live, they live in blest eternity."Henry More Space is ample, east and west,...

Nature centres into balls,And her proud ephemerals,Fast to surface and outside,Scan the profile of the sphere;Knew they what that signified,A new genesis were here. The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout natu...

Go, speed the stars of ThoughtOn to their shining goals; —The sower scatters broad his seed,The wheat thou strew’st be souls. Every substance is negatively electric to that which stands above it in the chemical tables, positively to that which stands belo...

Give to barrows, trays, and pansGrace and glimmer of romance;Bring the moonlight into noonHid in gleaming piles of stone;On the city’s paved streetPlant gardens lined with lilac sweet;Let spouting fountains cool the air,Singing in the sun-baked square;Let st...

A moody child and wildly wisePursued the game with joyful eyes,Which chose, like meteors, their way,And rived the dark with private ray:They overleapt the horizon’s edge,Searched with Apollo’s privilege;Through man, and woman, and sea, and star,Saw the dance...

The lords of life, the lords of life,—I saw them pass,In their own guise,Like and unlike,Portly and grim,Use and Surprise,Surface and Dream,Succession swift, and spectral Wrong,Temperament without a tongue,And the inventor of the gameOmnipresent without name...

The sun set; but set not his hope:Stars rose; his faith was earlier up:Fixed on the enormous galaxy,Deeper and older seemed his eye:And matched his sufferance sublimeThe taciturnity of time.He spoke, and words more soft than rainBrought the Age of Gold again...

“How near to good is what is fair!Which we no sooner see,But with the lines and outward airOur senses taken be. Again yourselves compose,And now put all the aptness onOf Figure, that ProportionOr Color can disclose;That if those silent arts were lost,Design...

Gifts of one who loved me, —‘T was high time they came;When he ceased to love me,Time they stopped for shame. It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay, and ought to go into chancery, ...

The rounded world is fair to see,Nine times folded in mystery:Though baffled seers cannot impartThe secret of its laboring heart,Throb thine with Nature’s throbbing breast,And all is clear from east to west.Spirit that lurks each form withinBeckons to spirit...

Gold and iron are goodTo buy iron and gold;All earth’s fleece and foodFor their like are sold.Boded Merlin wise,Proved Napoleon great, —Nor kind nor coinage buysAught above its rate.Fear, Craft, and AvariceCannot rear a State.Out of dust to buildWhat is more...