Imperfection means perfection hid.

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!

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

How good is life, the mere living!

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

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

Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!