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The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.
The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear read more
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
In some read more
Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
In some dread moment. by the fates assign'd,
Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
The speed that spins the future and the past:
And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
Awful eternity shall reign alone.
Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can read more
Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.
Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye read more
Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye will say, it is eternity!
This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there
The columns of the heavenly palaces.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, read more
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in read more
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and
that is eternity.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and
that is eternity.
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame
Over his living head like Heaven is bent,
An early but read more
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame
Over his living head like Heaven is bent,
An early but enduring monument,
Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song
In sorrow.