"Not what we would, but what we must, Makes up the sum of living; Heaven is both more and less than just In taking and…"

"We have two lives about us, Two worlds in which we dwell; Within us, and without us, Alternate Heaven and Hell: Witho…"

"Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands, Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands, Silent above the flowers, her child…"

"Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!"

"A voice of greeting from the wind was sent, The mists enfolded me with soft white arms, The birds did sing to lap me …"

"We love in others what we lack ourselves, And would be every thing but what we are."

"There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes so…"

"Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above."

"Children are the keys of Paradise. … They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives, are prayer."

"A face at the window, A tap on the pane: Who is it that wants me To-night in the rain?"