The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. And days may pass in gay confusion,...
I've quench'd my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall, The crash blent with my sleep, I saw depart Its light, even as I woke, on yonder wall;...
If thou be in a lonely place, If one hour's calm be thine, As Evening bends her placid face O'er this sweet day's decline; If all the earth and all the heaven Now look serene to thee,...
The room is quiet, thoughts alone People its mute tranquillity; The yoke put off, the long task done, I am, as it is bliss to be, Still and untroubled. Now, I see, For the first time, how soft the day...
Sit still, a word, a breath may break (As light airs stir a sleeping lake) The glassy calm that soothes my woes, The sweet, the deep, the full repose. O leave me not! for ever be...