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Men come and go as leaves year by year upon the trees. Those of autumn the wind sheds upon the ground, but when spring returns the forest buds forth with fresh vines. Even so is it with the generations of mankind, the new spring up as the old are passing away.
Homer900–800 BCThe Iliad (8th century BC), Book VIIn context
- Life & Death
Glory be to God for dappled things
Gerard Manley Hopkins1844–1889Pied Beauty (1877)In context
- Beauty
- God
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed.
Gerard Manley Hopkins1844–1889God’s Grandeur (1877)In context
- God
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things
Gerard Manley Hopkins1844–1889God’s Grandeur (1877)In context
Márgarét, are you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Gerard Manley Hopkins1844–1889Spring and Fall (1880)In context
- Children
My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,⁠—the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Gerard Manley Hopkins1844–1889The Windhover (1877)In context
- Animals
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough
A. E. Housman1859–1936Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now (1896)In context
- Beauty
I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Langston Hughes1901–1967The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1921)In context
- History
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Faith
The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part I, Episode 1In context
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part III, Episode 17 (2 of 3)In context
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant1724–1804Critique of Practical Reason (1788), Translated by Lewis White Beck
- Morality
The poetry of earth is never dead.
John Keats1795–1821Poems (1817)
- Poetry
To one who has been long in city pent,
’Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven.
John Keats1795–1821Poems (1817)
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down
John Keats1795–1821Ode to a Nightingale (1819)In context
- Life & Death