"And the jasmin-flower in her fair young breast: (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmin-flower!) And the one bird singing alone in his nest: And the one star over the tower."

"The world is fill'd with folly and sin, And Love must cling where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day."

"In the lives of most women and men There's a moment when all would go smooth and even, If only the dead could find out when To come back and be forgiven."

"A night of tears! for the gusty rain Had ceased, but the eaves were dripping yet; And the moon look'd forth, as tho' in pain, With her face al white and wet."

"Since we parted, yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer, One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,—thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before."

"Far up the wave The clouds that lay piled in the golden heat Were turn'd into types of the ancient mountains In an ancient land."

"We are but as the instrument of heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny."

"Who can undo What time hath done? who can win back the wind? Beckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?"

"For only by knowledge of that which is not Thyself shall thyself be learn'd."

"Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God."

"The thing which must be, must be for the best."