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  • The Immutable
    Time flies on restless pinions--constant never.
    Be constant--and thou chainest time forever.
    2 lines
  • The Learned Workman
    Ne'er does he taste the fruit of the tree that he raised with such trouble;
    Nothing but taste e'er enjoys that which by learning is reared.
    2 lines
  • Untitled 01
    Tell me all that thou knowest, and I will thankfully hear it!
    But wouldst thou give me thyself,--let me, my friend, be excused!
    2 lines
  • Worth And The Worthy
    If thou anything hast, let me have it,--I'll pay what is proper;
    If thou anything art, let us our spirits exchange.
    2 lines
  • To The Muse
    What I had been without thee, I know not--yet, to my sorrow
    See I what, without thee, hundreds and thousands now are.
    2 lines
  • The Duty Of All
    Ever strive for the whole; and if no whole thou canst make thee,
    Join, then, thyself to some whole, as a subservient limb!
    2 lines
  • Votive Tablets
    That which I learned from the Deity,--
    that which through lifetime hath helped me,
    3 lines
  • Ode To Joy
    Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning,
    Daughter of Elysium,
    133 lines
  • The Present Generation
    Was it always as now? This race I truly can't fathom.
    Nothing is young but old age; youth, alas! only is old.
    2 lines
  • Two Descriptions Of Action
    Do what is good, and humanity's godlike plant thou wilt nourish;
    Plan what is fair, and thou'lt strew seeds of the godlike around.
    2 lines
  • To Mystics
    That is the only true secret, which in the presence of all men
    Lies, and surrounds thee for ay, but which is witnessed by none.
    2 lines
  • Participation
    E'en by the hand of the wicked can truth be working with vigor;
    But the vessel is filled by what is beauteous alone.
    2 lines
  • Untitled 02
    Wouldst thou teach me the truth? Don't take the trouble! I wish not,
    Through thee, the thing to observe,--but to see thee through the thing.
    2 lines
  • The Key
    Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others.
    Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.
    2 lines
  • The Moral Force
    If thou feelest not the beautiful, still thou with reason canst will it;
    And as a spirit canst do, that which as man thou canst not.
    2 lines
  • The Animating Principle
    Nowhere in the organic or sensitive world ever kindles
    Novelty, save in the flower, noblest creation of life.
    2 lines
  • Untitled 03
    Thee would I choose as my teacher and friend. Thy living example
    Teaches me,--thy teaching word wakens my heart unto life.
    2 lines
  • Parables And Riddles
    I.
    A bridge of pearls its form uprears
    182 lines, 1 comment
  • To Laura (Mystery Of Reminiscence)
    Who and what gave to me the wish to woo thee--
    Still, lip to lip, to cling for aye unto thee?
    60 lines
  • The Count Of Hapsburg
    At Aix-la-Chapelle, in imperial array,
    In its halls renowned in old story,
    120 lines
  • The Lay Of The Bell
    Fast, in its prison-walls of earth,
    Awaits the mould of baked clay.
    435 lines
  • To Laura At The Harpsichord
    When o'er the chords thy fingers stray,
    My spirit leaves its mortal clay,
    40 lines
  • To Proselytizers
    "Give me only a fragment of earth beyond the earth's limits,"--
    So the godlike man said,--"and I will move it with ease."
    4 lines
  • The German Art
    By no kind Augustus reared,
    To no Medici endeared,
    18 lines
  • The Playing Infant
    Play on thy mother's bosom, babe, for in that holy isle
    The error cannot find thee yet, the grieving, nor the guile;
    10 lines
  • Light And Warmth
    In cheerful faith that fears no ill
    The good man doth the world begin;
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • The Honorable
    Ever honor the whole; individuals only I honor;
    In individuals I always discover the whole.
    2 lines
  • The Two Paths Of Virtue
    Two are the pathways by which mankind can to virtue mount upward;
    If thou should find the one barred, open the other will lie.
    4 lines
  • The Words Of Error
    Three errors there are, that forever are found
    On the lips of the good, on the lips of the best;
    30 lines
  • The Difficult Union
    Why are taste and genius so seldom met with united?
    Taste of strength is afraid,--genius despises the rein.
    2 lines
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