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Those immortal dead who live again - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Live in pulses stirr'd to generosity - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

In minds made better by their presence - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

In deeds of daring rectitude - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

In scorn for miserable aims that end with self - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Thoughts sublime that pierce the night - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

With their mild persistence urge man's search - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

To make undying music in the world - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

With widening retrospect that bred despair - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Rebellious flesh that would not be subdued - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

A vicious parent shaming still its child - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Die in the large and charitable air - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

And shap'd it forth before the multitude - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Till human Time shall fold its eyelids - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

A scroll within the tomb Unread forever - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

The cup of strength in some great agony - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Beget the smiles that have no cruelty - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

A garden tangled with glory - George Eliot "How Lisa Loved the King"

The pains that to great life belong - George Eliot "How Lisa Loved the King"

Naming the emptiness - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

Where thought is not - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

But fill the void with definition - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

'I' will be no more a datum - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

The words you link false inference with - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

All one web with vibrant ether - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

Ether clotted into worlds - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

Weaver of the etherial light - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

Being looking from the dark - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

Phantasmal flux of moments - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

Life of mine, before we two must part - George Eliot "Self and Life"

When light and love within her eyes were one - George Eliot "Self and Life"

We laughed together by the laurel-tree - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Culling warm daisies 'neath the sloping sun - George Eliot "Self and Life"

By Fear and sense of what was not - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Haunting all I held most dear - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Breathed deep breath in heroes dead - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Tasted the immortals' bread - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Reverence was with anguish wrung - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Feeling manifold with vision blent to wider thought - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Truth must hidden lie if unlit by Sorrow's eye - George Eliot "Self and Life"

I knew, not love, the law - George Eliot "Self and Life"

That wrote within the law of gratitude - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Wrestling 'gainst my mingled share - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Vain desire still to be what others were - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Shall prove life is justified by love - George Eliot "Self and Life"


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