Lord of
Lord of
ocean dark blue
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean
spain chivalry ridicule
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.
dark flames fire
So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.
hymns hypocrisy vaunt
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!
voice giving mind
It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship
beautiful stars sky
Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
sports autumn nuts
Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.
dream joy tears
And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.
doubt steps thee
And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.
sunset space clouds
Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.
age towers marathon
Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
art men long-ago
Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?
love-is heaven grove
Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.
political vengeance enough
Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.