“Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 222 of 276
“When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.”
“The hushed winds their Sabbath keep.”
“The breath of springtime at this twilight hour Comes through the gathering glooms, And bears the stolen sweets of many a flower Into my silent rooms.”
“And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.”
“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!”
“A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile, Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade. Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws, No more sits listening by his den, but steals Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field, And crops its juicy-blossoms.”
“The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds.”
“Heed not the night; A summer lodge amid the wild is mine, 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'Tis mantled by the vine.”
“I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.”
“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.”
“There are a few of the open-air spirits; the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.”
“Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.”
“O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.”
“I hear it in the deep heart's core.”
“While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.”
“Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.”
“The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.”
“It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.”
“Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.”