You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."

Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!

We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach