With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.
The devil’s most devilish when respectable.
Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.
World’s use is cold, world’s love is vain, world’s cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.
Earth’s crammed with Heaven.
A grave, on which to rest from singing?
A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
Or from Browning some “Pomegranate,” which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.
What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit’s melancholy And eternity’s despair; And they heard the words it said,- “Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!”
But the child’s sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god’s throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach.
Get work: Be sure it is better than what you work to get.
Death forerunneth Love to win “Sweetest eyes were ever seen.”
But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.