I had a daily bliss    I half indifferent viewed,    Till sudden I perceived it stir, —    It grew as I pursued,     Till when, around a crag,    It wasted from…

    To lose one’s faith surpasses    The loss of an estate,    Because estates can be    Replenished, — faith cannot.     Inherited with life,    Belief but once can be;    Annihilate a single clause,    And…

    Look back on time with kindly eyes,    He doubtless did his best;    How softly sinks his trembling sun    In human nature’s west!

I envy seas whereon he rides,    I envy spokes of wheels    Of chariots that him convey,    I envy speechless hills     That gaze upon his journey;    How easy all can…

  Like mighty footlights burned the red    At bases of the trees, —    The far theatricals of day    Exhibiting to these.     ‘T was universe that did applaud    While, chiefest of…

Life, and Death, and Giants    Such as these, are still.    Minor apparatus, hopper of the mill,    Beetle at the candle,    Or a fife’s small fame,    Maintain by accident    That they proclaim.

   It’s such a little thing to weep,    So short a thing to sigh;    And yet by trades the size of these    We men and women die!

    Let down the bars, O Death!    The tired flocks come in    Whose bleating ceases to repeat,    Whose wandering is done.     Thine is the stillest night,    Thine the securest fold;    Too…

 Lay this laurel on the one    Too intrinsic for renown.    Laurel! veil your deathless tree, —    Him you chasten, that is he!

 If tolling bell I ask the cause.    ‘A soul has gone to God,’    I’m answered in a lonesome tone;    Is heaven then so sad?     That bells should joyful…