Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove; Oh no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and… Marriage of True Minds
One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee,One lesson which in every wind is blown,One lesson to two duties kept at oneThough the loud world proclaim their enmity. Of toil unsevered from tanquility,Of labour, that is lasting fruit outgrowsFar noiser… The Silent Work of Nature
This spiritual Love acts not nor can exist Without Imagination, which, in truth, Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, An Reason in her most exalted mood. This faculty hath been the feeding source… Imagination
Can I see another’s woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow’s share? Can a father see his child… Another’s Woe
Consider this matter in the following similitude. A grain of wheat has the air and light of this world enclosed or incorporated in it. This is the mystery of its life, this is its power of growing, by this it… The Heart of the Grain
When coldness wraps this suffering clay, Ah! whither strays the immortal mind? It cannot die, it cannot stay, But leaves its darkened dust behind. Then, unembodied, doth it trace By steps each planet’s heavenly way? Or fill at once the… The Immortal Mind
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and… All the World’s a Stage
Descend, prophetic Spirit! that inspir’st The human Soul of universal earth, Dreaming on things to come; and dost possess A metropolitan temple in the hearts Of mighty Poets; upon me bestow A gift of genuine insight; that my Song With… Descent of Spirit
We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.Through the unknown, remembered gateWhen the last of earth left to discoverIs that which was the… The Crowned Knot of Fire
Let not soft slumber close your eyes, Before you’ve collected thrice The train of action through the day! Where have my feet chose out their way? What have I learnt, where’er I’ve been, From all I’ve heard, from all I’ve… Recollect Thrice
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended, To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when… Mourning in Vain
