Beauty

If you get simple beauty and naught else,

Unkempt about those hedges blows

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,

What is it men in women do require?

Exuberance is beauty.

To see a world in a grain of sand

The fading signals and grey eternal walls of that antique station, which, familiar to them and insignificant, does yet whisper to the tourist the last enchantments of the Middle Age.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Pictures of perfection as you know make me sick and wicked.

Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty both so ancient and so fresh, yea too late came I to love thee. And behold, thou wert within me, and I out of myself, where I made search for thee.

Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.

And so they could see she was a real princess, because she had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty eiderdowns.

Countless chuckles of the waves of the sea.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

Every day a wilderness—no shade in sight. Beulah patient among knickknacks, the solarium a rage of light, a grainstorm as her gray cloth brings dark wood to life.

These palms are greater than Versailles, for no man made them.

Beauty is a simple passion, but, oh my friends, in the end you will dance the fire dance in iron shoes.

Do I not deal with angels When her lips I touch.

Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

This iceberg cuts its facets from within. Like jewelry from a grave it saves itself perpetually and adorns Only itself.

What I love is near at hand, Always, in earth and air.

I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: The shapes a bright container can contain!

And the new plants, still awkward in their soil, The lovely diminutives. I could watch! I could watch! I saw the separateness of all things!