No star ever rose or set witho...

No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.

No life
Can be pure in ...

No life
Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife
And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

God be thank'd that the dead h...

God be thank'd that the dead have left still
Good undone for the living to do--
Still some aim for the heart and the will
And the soul of a man to pursue.

Alas! must it ever be so?

Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?

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In life there are meetings whi...

In life there are meetings which seem
Like a fate.

As pure as a pearl,
And...

As pure as a pearl,
And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.

Through tall cowslips nodding ...

Through tall cowslips nodding near you,
Just to touch you as you pass.

The first wan cowslip, wet

The first wan cowslip, wet
With tears of the first morn.

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We may live without poetry, mu...

We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
He may live without books,--what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope,--what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love,--what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?

We may live without friends; w...

We may live without friends; we may live without books
But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

When time is flown, how it fle...

When time is flown, how it fled
It is better neither to ask nor tell,
Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.

Who can undo
What time ha...

Who can undo
What time hath done? Who can win back the wind?
Reckon lost music from a broken lute?
Renew the redness of a last year's rose?
Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?

However we pass Time, he passe...

However we pass Time, he passes still,
Passing away whatever the pastime,
And, whether we use him well or ill,
Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

When the people have no tyrant...

When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

The devil, my friends, is a wo...

The devil, my friends, is a woman just now.
'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.

There is purpose in pain,

There is purpose in pain,
Otherwise it were devilish.

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What's saved affords
No...

What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.

No true love there can be with...

No true love there can be without
Its dread penalty--jealousy.

Good -humor is goodness and wi...

Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.

O hour, of all hours, the most...

O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth,
The bless'd hour of our dinners!