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Bayard Taylor Quotes (1825-1878)
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About Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor (11 January 1825 – 19 December 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat.
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“The hollows are heavy and dank
With the steam of the Goldenrods.”
With the steam of the Goldenrods.”
“They sang of love, and not of fame;
Forgot was Britain's glory;
Each heart recalled a different name,
But all sang Annie Lawrie.”
Forgot was Britain's glory;
Each heart recalled a different name,
But all sang Annie Lawrie.”
“Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest
Your truth and valor wearing:
The bravest are the tenderest,—
The loving are the daring.”
Your truth and valor wearing:
The bravest are the tenderest,—
The loving are the daring.”
“Thunder-spasms the waking be
Into Life from Apathy:
Life, not Death, is in the gale, —
Let the coming Doom prevail!”
Into Life from Apathy:
Life, not Death, is in the gale, —
Let the coming Doom prevail!”
“Knowledge alone is the being of Nature,
Giving a soul to her manifold features,
Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness,
The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.”
Giving a soul to her manifold features,
Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness,
The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.”
“Yes, let the Angel blow!
A peal from the parted heaven,
The first of seven!—
The warning, not yet the sign, of woe!
That men arise
And look about them with wakened eyes,
Behold on their garments the dust and slime,
Refrain, forbear,
Accept the weight of a nobler care
And take reproach from the fallen time!”
A peal from the parted heaven,
The first of seven!—
The warning, not yet the sign, of woe!
That men arise
And look about them with wakened eyes,
Behold on their garments the dust and slime,
Refrain, forbear,
Accept the weight of a nobler care
And take reproach from the fallen time!”
“From the Desert I come to thee
On a stallion shod with fire;
And the winds are left behind
In the speed of my desire.
Under thy window I stand,
And the midnight hears my cry:
I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold! ”
On a stallion shod with fire;
And the winds are left behind
In the speed of my desire.
Under thy window I stand,
And the midnight hears my cry:
I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold! ”
“All, wherein I have part,
All that was loss or gain, Slips from the clasping heart,
Breaks from the grasping brain.
All that was loss or gain, Slips from the clasping heart,
Breaks from the grasping brain.
Lo, what is left? '''I am bare
As a new-born soul, — I am naught:
My deeds are dust in air,
My words are ghosts of thought.
I ride through the night alone,
Detached from the life that seemed,
And the best I have felt or known
Is less than the least I dreamed.”
“Once let the Angel blow! —
A peal from the parted heaven,
The first of seven! For the time is come that was foretold
So long ago!
As the avalanche gathers, huge and cold,
From the down of the harmless snow,
The years and the ages gather and hang
Till the day when the word is spoken:
When they that dwell in the end of time
Are smitten alike for the early crime,
As the vials of wrath are broken!”
A peal from the parted heaven,
The first of seven! For the time is come that was foretold
So long ago!
As the avalanche gathers, huge and cold,
From the down of the harmless snow,
The years and the ages gather and hang
Till the day when the word is spoken:
When they that dwell in the end of time
Are smitten alike for the early crime,
As the vials of wrath are broken!”
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Bayard Taylor on Love 4 quotes
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“Ancient Pines, Ye bear no record of the years of man. Spring is your sole historian.”
Bayard Taylor on Flowers 3 quotes
“Primrose-eyes each morning ope In their cool, deep beds of grass; Violets make the air that pass Tell-tales of their fragrant slope.”
Bayard Taylor on Life 2 quotes
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“And yonder fly his scattered golden arrows, And smite the hills with day.”
Bayard Taylor on Character 2 quotes
“The hearts that dare are quick to feel; The hands that wound are soft to heal.”
Bayard Taylor on Song 2 quotes
“Because the gift of Song was chiefly lent, To give consoling music for the joys We lack, and not for those which we possess.”
Bayard Taylor on Libraries
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Bayard Taylor on Goldenrods
“The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.”
Bayard Taylor on Rest
“And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.”
Bayard Taylor on Sunrise
Bayard Taylor on Poets
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Bayard Taylor on Margaret Fuller
“Just before the forecastle sunk, the remaining sailors determined to leave. The steward, with whom the child had always been a great favorite, took it, almost by main force, and plunged with it into the sea; neither reached the shore alive. The Marquis Ossoli was soon afterwards washed away, but his wife remained in ignorance of his fate. The cook, who was the last person that reached the shore alive, said that the last words he heard her speak were: "I see nothing but death before me, — I shall never reach the shore." It was between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, and after lingering for about ten hours, exposed to the mountainous surf that swept over the vessel, with the contemplation of death constantly forced upon her mind, she was finally overwhelmed as the foremast fell.”
About Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor (11 January 1825 – 19 December 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat.