God's Gifts Put Man's Best Dreams To

How Many Desolate Creatures On The Earth Have Learnt The Simple Dues Of Fellowship And Social Comfort, In A Hospital.

There, That Is Our Secret: Go To Sleep! You Will Wake, And Remember, And Understand.

I Work With Patience, Which Is Almost Power.

Let Us Be Content To Work To Do The Things We Can, And Not Presume To Fret Because It's Little.

The Critics Could Never Mortify Me Out Of Heart - Because I Love Poetry For Its Own Sake, - And, Tho' With No Stoicism And Some Ambition, Care More For My Poems Than For My Poetic Reputation.