I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!
Tags: poetry, hatred, death

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I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Verse XXVII
Tags: sorrow, poetry, love, loss, consolation, bereavement
Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.
Tags: poetry, judgement, criticism
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Tags: sadness, poetry, memories, life
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tags: ulysses, poetry, heroism, age
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
Tags: inspirational
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