The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
‘Brahma’ (1867)
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
‘Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument’ 19 April 1836
Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home:
Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.
‘Good-bye’ (1847)
Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind.
‘Ode’ Inscribed to W. H. Channing (1847)
I like a church; I like a cowl;
I love a prophet of the soul;
And on my heart monastic aisles
Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles;
Yet not for all his faith can see,
Would I that cowléd churchman be.
‘The Problem’ (1847)
He builded better than he knew;—
The conscious stone to beauty grew.
‘The Problem’ (1847)
The frolic architecture of the snow.
‘The Snowstorm’ (1847)
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill.
‘Solution’ (1847)
So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man,
When Duty whispers low,
Thou must,
The youth replies,
I can.
‘Voluntaries’ no. 3 (1867)
Make yourself necessary to someone.
‘The Conduct of Life’ (1860) ‘Considerations by the way’
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it
fair.
‘The Conduct of Life’ (1860) ‘Considerations by the way’