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FRANK's Components of Creativity
Twas pastime to be boundWithin the sonnet's scanty plot of ground;Pleased if some souls (for such there needs...
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Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;And hermits are contented with their...
Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelfOf rock or sand reposeth, there to sun...
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!O Duty! if that name thou loveWho art a light to guide, a rodTo check...
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.Thanks to the human heart by which we live,Thanks to its...
Earth has not anything to show more fair:Dull would he be of soul who could pass byA sight so touching in its...
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by,One after one; the sound of rain and beesMurmuring; the fall of...
She dwelt among the untrodden waysBeside the springs of Dove,A maid whom there were none to praiseAnd very...
Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong.Source: Ode to Duty-- William...
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;The soul that rises with us, our life's star,Hath had elsewhere its...
The child is father of the man;And I could wish my days to beBound each to each by natural...
Blessed barrier between day and day.Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets, I. 14, `To...
A perfect woman, nobly planned,To warn, to comfort, and command.Source: She...
Me this unchartered freedom tires;I feel the weight of chance-desires:My hopes no more must change their...
A power is passing from the earthTo breathless Nature's dark abyss;But when the great and good depart,What...
And O, ye fountains, meadows, hills and groves,Forebode not any severing of our loves!Yet in my heart of...
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! the very houses seem...
She was a phantom of delightWhen first she gleamed upon my sight;A lovely apparition, sentTo be a moment's...
Behold the child among his new-born blisses,A six-years' darling of a pigmy size! More about this quote...
Mighty poets in their misery dead.Source: Resolution and Independence, 17--...
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