Lord of
Lord of
time hands hours
No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
hypocrite hypocrisy smooth
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
fall ambition hands
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
art army views
What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
ocean sea boat
My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.
ocean past men
Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."
loneliness solitude should
If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
country corn vote
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
baby rose sweetest
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
military worst tyranny
Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
men waiting quiet
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
beautiful ideas birth
Whatsoever thy birth, thou were a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.
ideas dissent shrouds
I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
life years ideas
In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.