“Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.”

The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.

What cannot be said will be wept.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

Whatever one loves most is beautiful.

For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.

Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.

If you are squeamish Don’t prod the beach rubble.

I do not know what to do, my mind’s in two.

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility – these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.