The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
BAYARD TAYLORThe hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
More Bayard Taylor Quotes
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Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart’s-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet’s journal, writ in fire and tears… Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.
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Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of ‘creature comforts,’ a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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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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Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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