From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
BAYARD TAYLORThe 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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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one’s own.
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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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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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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?
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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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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Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
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