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- Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it. Age
- We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts. Funny
- I should not dare to call my soul my own. Call
- May the good God pardon all good men. All
- If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand. Beneath
- Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another! Another Way
- Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little. Content
- Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest! All
- A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to… Action
- Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun. Beauty
- The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without,… All
- We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We… Beauty
- The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart. Barter
- For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. Bear
- Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart. Apart
- And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight. Brown
- 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… All
- That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height… Bold
- Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy. Grow
- Capacity for joy Admits temptation. Admits
- The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars. Inspirational
- Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath. Blew
- I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form. Bosom
- And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white. From
- Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing… Accessible
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