"He has singed the beard of the king of Spain."

The Dutch Picture.

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

Morituri Salutamus.

"With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!"

The Masque of Pandora. Chorus of the Eumenides.

"All things come round to him who will but wait."

Tales of a Wayside Inn. The Student's Tale.

"Time has laid his hand Upon my heart gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations."

The Golden Legend. iv.

"Hospitality sitting with Gladness."

Translation from Frithiof's Saga.

"Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers."

Motto, Hyperion. Book i.

"Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn."

Hyperion. Book ii.

"Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number."

Hyperion. Book iv. Chap. viii.

"There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery."

Inferno. Canto v. Line 121.

"So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!"

Ichabod!

"Making their lives a prayer."

To A. K. On receiving a Basket of Sea-Mosses.

"And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man."

The Chapel of the Hermits.

"For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!"

The Chapel of the Hermits.

"Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!""

Lines on Burns.

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!""

Maud Muller.

"Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores."

Snow Bound.

"The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong."

The Mantle of St. John de Matha.

"I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care."

The Eternal Goodness.

"The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States."

Decision in Texas v. White, 7 Wallace, 725.

"No more slave States; no slave Territories."

Platform of the Free Soil National Convention, 1848.

"The way to resumption is to resume."

Letter to Horace Greeley, March 17, 1866.

"My country, 't is of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountain-side Let freedom ring."

National Hymn.

"Our fathers' God, to thee; Author of liberty, To thee I sing; Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light; Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King!"

National Hymn.

"There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!"

A Vision of Poets.

"And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine."

A Vision of Poets.

"And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men."

A Vision of Poets.

"Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death."

A Vision of Poets. Conclusion.

"Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west."

Toll slowly.

"And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness His rest."

Rhyme of the Duchess.

"Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity."

Lady Geraldine's Courtship. xli.

"But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave."

Crowned and buried. xxvii.

"Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man."

To George Sand. A Desire.

"By thunders of white silence."

Hiram Power's Greek Slave.

"And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words it said,-- "Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!""

The Dead Pan.

"Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen.""

Catarina to Camoens. ix.

"She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows."

Little Mattie. Stanza ii.

"But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware."

Bianca among the Nightingales. xii.

"God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't."

Aurora Leigh. Book ii.

"The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds."

Aurora Leigh. Book v.

"I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."

Speech, June 16, 1858.

"Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it."

Address, New York City, Feb. 21, 1859.

"In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve."

Second Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862.

"That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Speech at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863.

"With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right."

Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.

"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection."

The Origin of Species. Chap. iii.

"We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence."

The Origin of Species. Chap. iii.

"The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient."

The Origin of Species. Chap. iii.

"This laurel greener from the brows Of him that utter'd nothing base."

To the Queen.

"And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet."

To the Queen.