Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me!

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.

'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.