One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes or a lifetime.
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
The sea heaves up hangs loaded o'er the land Breaks there and buries its...
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
Earth changes but thy soul and God stand sure.
God is the perfect poet.
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
So fall asleep love loved by me... for I know love I am loved by thee.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Love hope fear faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and...
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
White shall not neutralize the black nor good compensate bad in man absolve...
Like dogs in a wheel birds in a cage or squirrels in a chain ambitious men...
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall...
If you get simple beauty and naught else you get about the best thing God...
Thou art my single day God lends to leaven What were all earth else with a...
It is the glory and good of Art That Art remains the one way possible Of...
Finds progress man's distinctive mark alone Not God's and not the beast's...
Fail I alone in words and deeds? Why all men strive and who succeeds?
A face to lose youth for to occupy age With the dream of meet death with.
What Youth deemed crystal Age finds out was dew.
What's a man's age? He must hurry more that's all Cram in a day what his...
