My weary limbs are scarcely stretched for repose, before red dawn peeps into my chamber window, and the birds in the whispering le...aves over the roof, apprise me by their sweetest notes that another day of toil awaits me. I arise, the harness is hastily adjusted and once more I step upon the tread-mill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days;... But life becomes eventful--then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unbreachable the fort Of the long-batter'd world uplifts its wall;... And strange and vain the earthly turmoil grows, And near and real the charm of thy repose, And night as welcome as a friend would fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is... not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Atheism..., that bugbear of women and fools, is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a t...rue genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Creation's blithe and petaled word To the lounged goddess when she rose... Conceding dialogue with eyes That smile unsearchable repose--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »