Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

Sentences

Coventry Patmore (1823–1896)

’TIS truth, (although this truth’s a star

Too deep-enskied for all to see),

As poets of grammar, lovers are

The well-heads of morality.

“Keep measure in love?” More light befall

Thy sanctity, and make it less!

Be sure I will not love at all

Where I may not love with excess.

Who is the happy husband? He

Who, scanning his unwedded life,

Thanks Heaven, with a conscience free,

’Twas faithful to his future wife.