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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...

In countless upward-striving wavesThe moon-drawn tide-wave strives;In thousand far-transplanted graftsThe parent fruit survives;So, in the new-born millions,The perfect Adam lives.Not less are summer-mornings dearTo every child they wake,And each with novel ...

In the suburb, in the town,On the railway, in the square,Came a beam of goodness downDoubling daylight everywhere:Peace now each for malice takes,Beauty for his sinful weeds,For the angel Hope aye makesHim an angel whom she leads. A Lecture read before th...

It is natural to believe in great men. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal it would not surprise us. All mythology opens with demigods, and the circumstance is high and poetic; that is, their genius is par...

Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar’s fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, “Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.” These sentences contain the culture of nations; these are the corner-stone of schools; these are the f...

Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers: they have nothing in their hands; they have not cultivated corn, nor made bread; they have not led out a colony, nor invented a loom. A higher class...

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and on the other to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side. Nothing so thin but has these two faces, and when the o...