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9 Quotes for 'Bayard Taylor' in the Database.
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Bayard Taylor Quotes
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Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.
Topic: Libraries
Source: The Poet's Journal--Third Evening
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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!
Topic: Lilies
Source: The Poets' Journal--The Garden of Roses (st. 14)
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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!
Topic: March
Source: March
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When May, with cowslip-braided locks,
Walks through the land in green attire.
And burns in meadow-grass the phlox
His torch of purple fire:
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And when the punctual May arrives,
With cowslip-garland on her brow,
We know what once she gave our lives,
And cannot give us now!
Topic: May
Source: The Lost May
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens,
Are singing the selfsame strain.
Topic: Pain
Source: Wind and the Sea
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There's a pang in all rejoicing,
And a joy in the heart of pain;
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens,
Are singing the selfsame strain.
Topic: Pain
Source: Wind and the Sea
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Pansies in soft April rains
Fill their stalks with honeyed sap
Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.
Topic: Pansies
Source: Home and Travel--Ariel in the Cloven Pine (l. 37)
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide,
The poppy's bonfire spread.
Topic: Poppies
Source: Poems of the Orient--The Poet in the East (st. 4)
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Higher than the perfect song
For which love longeth,
Is the tender fear of wrong,
That never wrongeth.
Topic: Wrongs
Source: Improvisations (pt. V)
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