Genius, with all its pride in ...

Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.

The windflower and the violet,...

The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago,
And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,
Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,
And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.

The gentle race of flowers

The gentle race of flowers
Are lying in their lowly beds.

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Fairest of all that earth beho...

Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues
That live among the clouds, and flush the air,
Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews.

Error's monstrous shapes from ...

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.

On rolls the stream with a per...

On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh;
The rocks moan wildly as it passes by;
Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand,
And not a flower adorns the dreary land.

There is a day of sunny rest

There is a day of sunny rest
For every dark and troubled night;
And grief may hide an evening guest,
But joy shall come with early light.

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Follow thou thy choice....

Follow thou thy choice.

Features, the great soul's app...

Features, the great soul's apparent seat.

That make the meadows green; a...

That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

Old ocean's gray and melanchol...

Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

And at my silent window-sill T...

And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

The rugged trees are mingling ...

The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

God hath yoked to guilt her pa...

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

And the blue gentian-flower, t...

And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.

Flowers spring up unsown and d...

Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.

Ah! never shall the land forge...

Ah! never shall the land forget.

Remorse is virtue's root; its ...

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Ah! never shall the land forge...

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

The fiercest agonies have shor...

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.