Hark to that shrill, sudden sh...

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout,
The cry of an applauding multitude,
Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields
The living mass as if he were its soul!

Poetry is the eloquence of ver...

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

All great poets have been men ...

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

The mighty Rain
Holds the...

The mighty Rain
Holds the vast empire of the sky alone.

Oh, river! darkling river! wha...

Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice
Is that thou utterest while all else is still--
The ancient voice that, centuries ago,
Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet
A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream!

Ah, never shall the land forge...

Ah, never shall the land forget
How gush'd the life-blood of the brave,
Gush'd warm with hope and courage yet,
Upon the soil they fought to save!

All things that are on earth s...

All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away,
Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye.

The journalist should be on hi...

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

Ah, passing few are they who s...

Ah, passing few are they who speak,
Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee;
Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak,
Thou art a welcome month to me.
For thou, to northern lands, again
The glad and glorious sun dost bring,
And thou hast joined the gentle train
And wear'st the gentle name of Spring.

Your peaks are beautiful, ye A...

Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines!
In the soft light of these serenest skies;
From the broad highland region, black with pines,
Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise,
Bathed in the tint Peruvian slaves behold
In rosy flushes on the virgin gold.

Music is not merely a study, i...

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

On my cornice linger the ripe ...

On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered;
Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee,
Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them
Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.

There is a Power whose care

There is a Power whose care
Teaches thy way.

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Self-interest is the most inge...

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

Lo! while we are gazing, in sw...

Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste
Stream down the snows, till the air is white,
As, myriads by myriads madly chased,
They fling themselves from their shadowy height.
The fair, frail creatures of middle sky,
What speed they make, with their grave so nigh;
Flake after flake,
To lie in the dark and silent lake!

Stand here by my side and turn...

Stand here by my side and turn, I pray,
On the lake below thy gentle eyes;
The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray,
And dark and silent the water lies;
And out of that frozen mist the snow
In wavering flakes begins to flow;
Flake after flake,
They sink in the dark and silent lake.

The little windflower, whose j...

The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

The stormy March has come at l...

The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies.

Adversity is the nurse of grea...

Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lo...

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.