Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

What joy is better than the news of friends?

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

I do what many dream of, all their lives

Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.

Outside are the storms and strangers: we — Oh, close, safe, warm sleep I and she, — I and she!