Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death— We die whene'er we think of it!

Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.