The soul hath snatched up mine...

The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.

I, who thought to sink, was ca...

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

What is art but the life upon ...

What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

This race is never grateful: f...

This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

Some people always sigh in tha...

Some people always sigh in thanking God.

Definition of Love: A score of...

Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

Yes, I answered you last night...

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

Oh, a day in the city-square, ...

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

With stammering lips and insuf...

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

'There is no God,' the fooli...

'There is no God,' the foolish saith, But none, 'There is no sorrow.' And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, 'God be pitiful,' Who ne'er said, 'God be praised.'

Men of science, osteologists A...

Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.

But love me for love's sake, t...

But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

True knowledge comes only thro...

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

A great acacia, with its slend...

A great acacia, with its slender trunk
And overpoise of multitudinous leaves.
(In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
Stood reconciling all the place with green.

Nosegays! leave them for the w...

Nosegays! leave them for the waking,
Throw them earthward where they grew
Dim are such, beside the breaking
Amaranths he looks unto.
Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

As the moths around a taper,

As the moths around a taper,
As the bees around a rose,
As the gnats around a vapour,
So the spirits group and close
Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.

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Where Christ brings His cross ...

Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.

O Death, O Beyond,
Thou a...

O Death, O Beyond,
Thou art sweet, thou art strange!

The plague of gold strikes far...

The plague of gold strikes far and near.

Mountain gorses, do ye teach u...

Mountain gorses, do ye teach us
. . . .
That the wisest word man reaches
Is the humblest he can speak?