George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.
WarningJulia Ward Howe (18191910)
P
Passion, lacking inspiration;
Leisure, not of contemplation.
Fretted luxury consume thee,
All divineness vanish from thee.
Keep one great love, purely, solely,
Till it make thy nature holy;
That thy heart may beat in lightness,
That thy being end in brightness.