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John Townsend Trowbridge (September 18, 1827 β February 12, 1916) was a popular American author born in Ogden, New York to Windsor Stone Trowbridge and Rebecca Willey. His papers are located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University.
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βMen are polished, through act and speech,
Each by each,
As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.β
Each by each,
As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.β
βWith years a richer life begins,
The spirit mellows:
Ripe age gives tone to violins,
Wine, and good fellows.β
The spirit mellows:
Ripe age gives tone to violins,
Wine, and good fellows.β
βOur days, our deeds, all we achieve or are,
Lay folded in our infancy; the things
Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn.β
Lay folded in our infancy; the things
Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn.β
βI keep some portion of my early gleam;
Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river,
It lights my life, a far illusive dream,
Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.β
Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river,
It lights my life, a far illusive dream,
Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.β
βDarius was clearly of the opinion
That the air is also manβs dominion,
And that, with paddle or fin or pinion,
We soon or late
Shall navigate
The azure, as now we sail the sea.β
That the air is also manβs dominion,
And that, with paddle or fin or pinion,
We soon or late
Shall navigate
The azure, as now we sail the sea.β
βOf nothing comes nothing: springs rise not above
Their source in the far-hidden heart of the mountains:
Whence then have descended the Wisdom and Love
That in man leap to light in intelligent fountains?β
Their source in the far-hidden heart of the mountains:
Whence then have descended the Wisdom and Love
That in man leap to light in intelligent fountains?β
βIf you will observe, it doesnβt take
A man of giant mould to make
A giant shadow on the wall;
And he who in our daily sight
Seems but a figure mean and small,
Outlined in Fameβs illusive light,
May stalk, a silhouette sublime,
Across the canvas of his time.β
A man of giant mould to make
A giant shadow on the wall;
And he who in our daily sight
Seems but a figure mean and small,
Outlined in Fameβs illusive light,
May stalk, a silhouette sublime,
Across the canvas of his time.β
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John Townsend Trowbridge on Aeronautics 3 quotes
β"Wal, I like flyin' well enough," He said, "but the' ain't sich a thundern' sight O' fun in't when ye come to light."β
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John Townsend Trowbridge on Mind
βA flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.β
John Townsend Trowbridge on Air
βDarius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also manβs dominion, And that, with paddle or fin or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea.β
About John Townsend Trowbridge
John Townsend Trowbridge (September 18, 1827 β February 12, 1916) was a popular American author born in Ogden, New York to Windsor Stone Trowbridge and Rebecca Willey. His papers are located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University.