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Earth is less fragrant now, and heaven more sweet.
Epigrams of Art, Life, and Nature (1884)
Man looks at his own bliss, considers it,
Weighs it with curious fingers; and 'tis gone.
Epigrams of Art, Life, and Nature (1884)
Flower-fondled, clasp'd in ivy's close caress,
It seems with Nature, yet apart.
Epigrams of Art, Life, and Nature (1884)
God, by the earlier sceptic, was exiled;
The later is more lenient grown and mild:
He sanctions God, provided you agree
To any other name for deity.
Epigrams of Art, Life, and Nature (1884)
To keep in sight Perfection, and adore
The vision, is the artist's best delight;
His bitterest pang, that he can ne'er do more
Than keep her long'd-for loveliness in sight.
Epigrams of Art, Life, and Nature (1884)
The Poet gathers fruit from every tree,
Yea, grapes from thorns and figs from thistles he.
Pluck'd by his hand, the basest weed that grows
Towers to a lily, reddens to a rose.
Epigrams of Art, Life, and Nature (1884)
His friends he loved. His fellest earthly foes—
Cats—I believe he did but feign to hate.
My hand will miss the insinuated nose,
Mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate.
Epigrams of Art, Life, and Nature (1884)