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God is the perfect poet.
Topic: Poetry
Source: None
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Oh, the little more, and how much it is!
And the little less, and what worlds away.
Topic: Poverty
Source: By the Fireside (st. 39)
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Just my vengeance complete,
The man sprang to his feet,
Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!
So, I was afraid!
Topic: Prayer
Source: Instans Tyrannus (VII)
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For the preacher's merit or demerit,
It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer
In the earthen vessel, holding treasure,
But the main thing is, does it hold good measure
Heaven soon sets right all other matters!
Topic: Preaching
Source: Christmas Eve (canto XXII)
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beast's;
God is, they are,
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
Topic: Progress
Source: A Death in the Desert
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Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun,
But dream of him, and guess where he may be,
And do the best to climb, and get to him.
Topic: Progress
Source: Paracelsus (last page)
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Progress is
The law of life, man is not
Man as yet.
Topic: Progress
Source: Paracelsus (pt. V)
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God's in His Heaven--
All's right with the world!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Pippa Passes (pt. I)
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In some time, his good time, I shall arrive;
He guides me and the bird
In his good time.
Topic: Providence
Source: Paracelsus (pt. I)
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me....for I know love, I am loved by thee.
Topic: Romance
Source: None
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Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
Topic: Rome
Source: Ring and the Book (V, 296)
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All June I bound the rose in sheaves,
Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
Topic: Roses
Source: One Way of Love
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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven
What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
Topic: Sabbath
Source: Pippa Passes (sc. 1)
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"With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare be!
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: House (X)
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A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one--
And those who live as models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.
Topic: Society
Source: Luria (act V, l. 334)
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And I have written three books on the soul,
Proving absurd all written hitherto,
And putting us to ignorance again.
Topic: Soul
Source: Cleon
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That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,
His hundreds soon hit:
His high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.
Topic: Success
Source: A Grammarian's Funeral
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Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, God be thanked! I do not.
Topic: Success
Source: The Inn Album (IV)
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Topic: Temptation
Source: The Ring and the Book--The Pope (l. 1,185)
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Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
Topic: Temptations
Source: None
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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
Topic: Thoughts
Source: None
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Topic: Trying
Source: None
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Her voice changed like a bird's:
There grew more of the music, and less of the words.
Topic: Voice
Source: Flight of the Duchess (st. 15)
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O world as God has made it! All is beauty.
Topic: World
Source: Guardian Angel--A Picture at Fano
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In the great right of an excessive wrong.
Topic: Wrongs
Source: The Ring and the Book--The other Half--Rome (l. 1,055)
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Topic: Youth
Source: None
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