So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
BAYARD TAYLOR- The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
BAYARD TAYLORHigher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,– Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,– Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
BAYARD TAYLORWrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,– Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,– Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
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The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
BAYARD TAYLORThe Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
BAYARD TAYLORThe stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
BAYARD TAYLORLove’s humility is love’s true pride.
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I know I am–that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
BAYARD TAYLORBy wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Really,’ thought I, ‘we call Baltimore the ‘Monumental City’ for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
BAYARD TAYLORReally,’ thought I, ‘we call Baltimore the ‘Monumental City’ for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
BAYARD TAYLORAnd rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
BAYARD TAYLORAnd far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
BAYARD TAYLORThe hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
BAYARD TAYLORWe follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
BAYARD TAYLORLondon has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
BAYARD TAYLORAbove Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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