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All things come round to him who will but wait.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)
Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.
The Spanish Student (1843)
He has singed the beard of the king of Spain.
Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep.
She floats upon the river of his thoughts.
Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.
Then stars arise, and the night is holy.
Hyperion (1839)
Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.
Hyperion (1839)
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
It serves for food and raiment.
The Spanish Student (1843)
Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
Ballads and Other Poems (1842)
Standing, with reluctant feet,
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet!
Ballads and Other Poems (1842)
Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise,
Having naught else but Hope.
Listen, every one
That listen may, unto a tale
That's merrier than the nightingale.
The market-place, the eager love of gain,
Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
Morituri Salutamus (1875)
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
Morituri Salutamus (1875)
Though time has touched it in his flight,
And changed the auburn hair to white.
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution,
She lives whom we call dead.
The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)
There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.
The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems (1845)