Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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More Bayard Taylor Quotes
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Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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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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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
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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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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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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!
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Love is better than Fame.
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The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
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By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
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