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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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, ...

“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...

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...

“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 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...

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...

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...

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...

"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,...

“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...

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...

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...

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...