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Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Each of us inevitable;
Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Come lovely and soothing death,
Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,
In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
Sooner or later, delicate death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Lo! the moon ascending!
Up from the East, the silvery round moon;
Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;
Immense and silent moon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Youth, large, lusty, loving—Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!
Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Now obey thy cherished secret wish,
Embrace thy friends—leave all in order;
To port and hawser's tie no more returning,
Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed,
And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,
I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done!
The ship has weathered every wrack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Praised be the fathomless universe
For life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;
And for love, sweet love—But praise! O praise and praise
For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited;
I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed;
I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,
And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
I loafe and invite my soul.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me,
This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country—I now go back there,
I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)