53 quotes
As some divinely gifted man,
Whose life in low estate began,
And on a simple village green;
Who breaks his birth's invidious bar.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
O sorrow, wilt thou rule my blood,
Be sometimes lovely, like a bride,
And put thy harsher moods aside,
If thou wilt have me wise and good.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Come, Time, and teach me many years,
I do not suffer in dream;
For now so strange do these things seem,
Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
The time draws near the birth of Christ:
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Yonder cloud
That rises upward always higher,
And onward drags a laboring breast,
And topples round the dreary west,
A looming bastion fringed with fire.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Their meetings made December June.
Their every parting was to die.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail
Against her beauty? May she mix
With men and prosper! Who shall fix
Her pillars? Let her work prevail.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Where God and Nature met in light.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought
Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation's final law —
Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek'd against his creed —
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Rise, happy morn, rise, holy morn,
Draw forth the cheerful day from night;
O Father, touch the east, and light
The light that shone when Hope was born.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
The time admits not flowers or leaves
To deck the banquet. Fiercely flies
The blast of North and East, and ice
Makes daggers at the sharpen’d eaves
In Memoriam A.H.H (1850)
I read
Of that glad year that once had been,
In those fall'n leaves which kept their green,
The noble letters of the dead:
And strangely on the silence broke
The silent-speaking words.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)