“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.”

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

“An ear can break a human heartAs quickly as a spear,We wish the ear had not a heartSo dangerously near.”

“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveil A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell.Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.”

“AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.”

“Life is but Life! And Death, but Death!Bliss is but Bliss, and Breath but Breath!”