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Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Poems: Second Series (1848)
One day with life and heart
Is more than time enough to find a world.
Poems: Second Series (1848)
The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
Poems: Second Series (1848)
The thing we long for, that we are
For one transcendent moment.
Poems: Second Series (1848)
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,
First pledge of blithesome May,
Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold.
Poems: Second Series (1848)
The birch, most shy and lady-like of trees,
Her poverty, as best she may, retrieves,
And hints at her foregone gentilities
With some saved relics of her wealth of leaves.
Poems: Second Series (1848)