"I would make Reason my guide, but she should sometimes sit Patiently by the way-side, while I traced The mazes of the…"

"And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death."

"When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs …"

"Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, …"

"The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun."

"These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rol…"

"The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the …"

"Heed not the night; a summer lodge amid the wild is mine - 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'tis mantled by the vine."

"The victory of endurance born."

"Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such …"