Lord of
Lord of
grew grown hair nor single sudden white
My hair is grey, but not with years, / Nor grew it white / In a single night, / As men's have grown from sudden fears.
idleness till today tomorrow
No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today
maid oh
Maid of Athens, ere we part, / Give, oh give me back my heart!
caught despair might wins
Maidens like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair
babe brother childish lull simple wordsworth
Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.
forever
Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever
heavens justice though
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
cities high hum human mountains portion
I live not in myself, but I become / Portion of that around me; and to me / High mountains are a feeling, but the hum / Of human cities torture.
hour man quarter
I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
consider met pat poetry
I have met with most poetry on trunks; so that I am pat to consider the trunk-maker as the sexton of authorship
man opinion
What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.
born happiness joy share
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
compound deity dirt inspired mind mixed sensuality soaring
What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
magic power thoughts-and-thinking
The power of thought, the magic of the mind.