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There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.
Voices of the Night (1839)
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
No tears
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Why don't you speak for yourself, John?
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)
From labor there shall come forth rest.
The young may die, but the old must!
Figures that almost move and speak.
Kéramos (1878)
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Hyperion (1839)
Build on, and make thy castles high and fair,
Rising and reaching upward to the skies;
Listen to voices in the upper air,
Nor lose thy simple faith in mysteries.
Feet that run on willing errands!
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
Rule by patience, Laughing Water!
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
He the sweetest of all singers.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
The natural alone is permanent.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.
Table-Talk (1857)
Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances
Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows;
Old folk and young together, and children mingled among them.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)
The light upon her face
Shines from the windows of another world.
Saints only have such faces.
A fine morning,
Nothing's the matter with it that I know of.
I have seen better and I have seen worse.
Christus (1873)
Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream,
Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!
The Spanish Student (1843)
Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater
To raise the dead to life than to create
Phantoms that seem to live.
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,—
Let me review the scene,
And summon from the shadowy past
The forms that once have been.