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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave. - A Question (st. 1) [Change] And see all sights from pole to pole And glance, and nod, and bustle by, And never once possess our soul Before we die. - A Southern Night (st. 18) [Soul] Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine, For of all powers the mightiest far art thou, Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven; Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld One thing--to undo what thou thyself hast ruled. - Balder Dead--The Funeral [Power] The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light." - Culture and Anarchy [Sweetness] The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. - Culture and Anarchy [Sweetness] Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain. - Dover Beach [Love] I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Bravely! said he; for I of late have been Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread. - East London [Preaching] If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: "Eternity, be thou My refuge!" and no more. - Epitaph [Epitaphs] The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo-Saxon contagion." - Essay on Criticism, Second Series [Eloquence] [Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties. - Essays in Criticism (closing paragraph of preface) [Failure] I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair; And they, that lovely face who view, They should not ask if truth be there. - Euphrosyne [Beauty] On one she smiled, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din! But 'twas not love which heaved her breast, Fair child!--it was the bliss within. - Euphrosyne [Women] What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone. - Growing Old [Age] Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world." - Literature and Dogma (preface) [Education] Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail. - Literature and Dogma--Preface [Sweetness] Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordworth's healing power? - Memorial Verses [Wordsworth, William] With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built as we discern. - Morality (st. 2) [Life] Six years--six little years--six drops of time. - Mycerinus (st. 11) [Time] The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. - Obermann Once More (st. 28) [Countries] Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated! Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! hark!--what pain! . . . . Again--thou hearest? Eternal passion! Eternal pain! - Philomela (l. 32) [Nightingales] Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find. - Progress (st. 10) [Religion] Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers! - Religious Isolation (st. 4) [Nature] Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath; Tonight it doth inherit The vasty hall of death. - Requiescat [Death] This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. - Scholar-Gypsy (st. 21) [Life] Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. - Shakespeare [Shakespeare] Displaying page 2 of 3 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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