...A lighter thing than vanity. Good words make friends ; bad words make enemies. SIR MATTHEW HALE. " For words like nature — half reveal And half conceal the soul within." " Thought is deeper than all speech ; Feeling deeper than all thought." Give not thy tongue too great...

...is our habit in an age of utterly chaotic education. We read, as the bereaved poet made rhymes — " For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; This sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain." We, to whom steam and electricity have...

...Concluding poem, 27. The following stanzas admit of having their first and second verses transposed : I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. — v. 1. And doubtful joys the father move, And tears are on the mother's face, As parting with a...

...of the miscellaneous stores of the memory, and the mechanical process of arranging words in metre. But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. Bacon however not only composed these two little works, but published them1: a fact which, considering...

...them in their huge Victorian houses. The poet laureate gave the key to the mood of the nation: .... for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad, mechanic exercise, Like narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the...

...help to him in his sorrow, — as being a work which both occupied his mind and relieved his heart. " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain." And this benefit of " measured language " has been experienced by many a reader, as well as by the...

...poem so frequently points to the profounder depths of feeling unexpressed and almost inexpressible. "I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er. Like coarsest clothes against the cold : But that large grief...

...and he slept. burden of a grief-laden heart, with, at first, no intention of winning the public ear. For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. The poet " sang because he must," and his " short swallowflights of song," dipping their wings in tears...

...and he slept. burden of a grief-laden heart, with, at first, no intention of winning the public ear. For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. The poet " sang because he must," and his " short swallowflights of song," dipping their wings in tears...

...burden of a grief-laden heart, with, at first, no intention of winning the public ear. For the unqu1et heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ;...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. The poet " sang because he must," and his " short swallowflights of song," dipping their wings in tears...