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Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.
Evangeline (1847)
Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the poet's native land.
Hyperion (1839)
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
Voices of the Night (1839)
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
"Life is but an empty dream!"
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Voices of the Night (1839)
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental,
That nothing with God can be accidental.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Hyperion (1839)
Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!
Hyperion (1839)
And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.
Hyperion (1839)
Like Dian's kiss, unask'd, unsought,
Love gives itself, but is not bought.
Endymion (1818)
Love is sunshine, hate is shadow,
Life is checkered shade and sunshine.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors than from his virtues.
Hyperion (1839)
What seem to us but dim funereal tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.
Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks,
And through the opening door that time unlocks
Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep.
Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)
Sensitive, swift to resent, but as swift in atoning for error.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of mankind.
I should think your tongue had broken its chain!