"From perfect grief there need not be Wisdom or even memory; One thing then learned remains to me — The woodspurge has…"

"Tell me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora the lovely Roman? Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, Neither of the…"

"I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet, keen smell, The …"

"If God in his wisdom have brought close The day when I must die, That day by water or fire or air My feet shall fall …"

"Still we say as we go,— "Strange to think by the way Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.""

"Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the w…"

"Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'T was one of my most inti…"

"If the light is It is because God said 'Let there be light.'"

"Thou fill'st from the wingèd chalice of the soul Thy lamp, O Memory, fire-wingèd to its goal."

"I am not as these are, the poet saith In youth's pride, and the painter, among men At bay, where never pencil comes n…"