Lord of
Lord of
nature mind noble
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
friendship no-friends made
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
time age heirs
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
new-year years old-year
I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?
nature men hands
And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.
fire clouds west
Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.
plato mean men
Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.
husband heart wife
The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
ocean sea stones
Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
lasts firsts earth
A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.
roots tree branches
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.
roaming limits world
Here at the quiet limit of the world.
time jewels long
Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
nature men mind
Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.