Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers!
⁠This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves
⁠Birds build their nests; while canopied with leaves
⁠Parvis and portal bloom like trellised bowers,
And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers! ”

“ The flowers our mothers and sisters used to love and cherish, those which grow beneath our eaves and by our doorstep, are the ones we always love best. If the Houyhnhnms should ever catch me, and, finding me particularly vicious and unmanageable, send a man-tamer to Rareyfy me, I'll tell you what drugs he would have to take and how he would have to use them. Imagine yourself reading a number of the Houyhnhnms Gazette, giving an account of such an experiment. ”

“ I lift mine eyes, and all the windows blaze
⁠With forms of Saints and holy men who died,
⁠Here martyred and hereafter glorified;
⁠And the great Rose upon its leaves displays
Christ's Triumph, and the angelic roundelays,
⁠With splendor upon splendor multiplied ”

“ Of him who was first to sail
Into the Arctic seas.
"So far I live to the northward,
No man lives north of me;
To the east are wild mountain-chains;
And beyond them meres and plains;
To the westward all is sea. ”

“ The operator took a handful of _budding lilac-leaves_, and crushing them slightly between his hoofs, so as to bring out their peculiar fragrance, fastened them to the end of a long pole and held them towards the creature. Its expression changed in an instant,--it drew in their fragrance eagerly, and attempted to seize them with its soft split hoofs. Having thus quieted his suspicious subject, the operator proceeded to tie a _blue hyacinth_ to the end of the pole and held it out towards the wild animal. ”