Dictionary Poems

When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these [books] only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope nor deserted sorrow. Discuss Washington Irving

I DREAMED that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the woodWith her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes:I cried in my dream, O women, bid the young men layTheir heads on your knees, and drown … Continued

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth—certainly the machine will wear out. Discuss Henry David Thoreau

This simple accident of falling in love is as beneficial as it is astonishing. Discuss Robert Louis Stevenson

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. Discuss William Shakespeare

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs…have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. Discuss Joseph Conrad

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow. Discuss Edgar Allan Poe

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? Discuss Lewis Carroll

How gladly would I meetMortality my sentence, and be earthInsensible! how glad would lay me downAs in my mother’s lap! Discuss John Milton

Light, so low upon earth, ; You send a flash to the sun.Here is the golden close of love, ; All my wooing is done.Oh, the woods and the meadows, ; Woods where we hid from the wet,Stiles where we stay’d to be kind, ; Meadows in which we met! Light, so low in the … Continued