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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses

Bayard Taylor

The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
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Clouds Light Moon
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Know Labor Prayer
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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Apollo Athlete Race
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Higher Perfect Song
Fame is what you have taken, / Character’s what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.
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Character Giving Taken
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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Childhood Desire Long
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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Glee Ocean Swelling
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Observation People
Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.
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Hope Night Past
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
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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Art Desire Success
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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Fire Ignorance Learning
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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Baltimore Cities Two
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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Aim Perfection Unattainable
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.
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Blue Color Tree
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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Childhood Children Dream
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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Color Flame Rain Rocks Sprinkle
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Heart Solitude
The glories of the possible are ours.
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Future Glory
The loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement Love
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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Blood Fire Heart
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True

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