Lord of
Lord of
running moving knowledge
Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point. ... Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. ... Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
mother new-year queens
You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.
father boys men
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
peace war years
Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
men hunting games
Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
silence littles rift
It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
crazy men forever
Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.
winning perfect may
Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.
nature red teeth
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
criticism literature locks
A louse in the locks of literature.
rain sky rainbow
Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!
lonely loneliness ancient
Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.
men light world
This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.
honesty lying heart
Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.