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"Tis aye a solemn thing to me To look upon a babe that sleeps-- Wearing in its spirit-deeps The unrevealed mystery Of its Adam's taint and woe, Which, when they revealed lie, Will not let it slumber so."
"The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart."
"And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture."
"I worked with patience which means almost power."
"O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good."
"Capacity for joy Admits temptation."
"And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And gone my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most loving of you all, Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall; He giveth His beloved sleep."
"The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day."
"O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep."
"But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!"
"It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced."
"But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity."
"When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last."
"A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad."
"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness."
"I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!""
"O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty."
"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"
"Love that endures, from life that disappears!"
"Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain."