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 | "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth
and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For
the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee freely, as men strive for
Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the
passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood"s faith. I love
thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints?I love thee with the
breadth, Smiles, tears, of all my life!?and, if God choose, I shall but
love thee better after death." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "A woman"s always younger than a man of equal years." | |
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Found in the topic Women.
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| "God"s gifts put man"s best dreams to shame." | |
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Found in the topic Gift.
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| "Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Earth?s crammed with heaven And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes, The rest sit round it and pick
blackberries, And daub their natural faces unaware More and more from the
first similitude." | |
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Found in the topic Earth.
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| "God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing
we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in "t." | |
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Found in the topic Praise.
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| "Measure not the work until the day"s out and the labor done." | |
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Found in the topic Accomplishment.
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| "The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine
from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost
human gazes Toward the newly Born: The simple shepherds from the star-lit
brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The
strange sweet angel-tongue: The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt
reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the
ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to
hold: So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state.
Sleep, sleep, my kingly One!" | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Since when was genius found respectable?" | |
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Found in the topic Genius.
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| "The devil"s most devilish when respectable." | |
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Found in the topic Devil.
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| "The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face,
and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted
scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a
worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights,
With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic
sounds." | |
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Found in the topic Drama.
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| "Who so loves believes the impossible." | |
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Found in the topic Impossible.
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