1809 – 1892 • British • Poet
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
A day may sink or save a realm.
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Authority forgets a dying king.
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
There's no glory like those who save their country.
I am a part of all that I have met.
Better not be at all than not be noble.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
