The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.
Spring is when life’s alive in everything.
Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth’s full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower.
All earth’s full rivers can not fill the sea that drinking thirsteth still.
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?
Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion That days drone elsewhere.
It’s surely summer. for there’s a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.
Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief: – We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.
It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.
And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.
Good deeds are many, but good lives are few...
Heaven is the presence of God.
O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In little daily duties to which Thou callest us, bow down our wills to simple obedience.
A pin has a head, but has no hair.