36 Famous Quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
11/11/1836 - 3/19/1907
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Thomas Aldrich
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About Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, novelist, travel writer and editor.
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Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows
In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces,
The fading Alps and archipelagoes,
And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.
Sunset
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: Sonnet--Miracles
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When friends are at your hearthside met,
Sweet courtesy has done its most
If you have made each guest forget
That he himself is not the host.
Hospitality
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: Hospitality
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Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey.
May
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: May
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Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay,
And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel,
I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!
Tears
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: Two Moods
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When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit,
What life, what glorious eagerness it is,
Then mark how full Possession falls from this,
How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit,--
I am perplext, and often stricken mute.
Wondering which attained the higher bliss,
The wing'd insect, or the chrysalis
It thrust aside with unreluctant foot.
Possession
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: Sonnet--Pursuit and Possession
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But when the sun in all his state,
Illumed the eastern skies,
She passed through glory's morning gate,
And walked in Paradise.
Death
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: A Death Bed
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Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space,
In twilight land, in no man's land,
Two hurrying shapes met face to face
And bade each other stand.
"And who are you?" cried one, a-gape,
Shuddering in the glimmering light.
"I know not," said the second shape,
"I only died last night."
Death
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: Identity
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The happy bells shall ring Marguerite;
The summer birds shall sing Marguerite;
You smile but you shall wear
Orange blossoms in your hair, Marguerite.
Flowers
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: Wedded
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What is lovely never dies,
But passes into other loveliness,
Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
Beauty
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: A Shadow of the Night
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Till then, good-night!
You wish the time were now? And I.
You do not blush to wish it so?
You would have blush'd yourself to death
To own so much a year ago.
What! both these snowy hands? ah, then
I'll have to say, Good-night again.
Parting
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: Palabras Carinosas
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But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait
At the portcullis, at thy castle gate,
Longing to see the charmed door of dreams
Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!
Sleep
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: Invocation to Sleep
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These Winter nights against my window-pane
Nature with busy pencil draws designs
Of ferns and blossoms and fine spray of pines,
Oak-leaf and acorn and fantastic vines,
Which she will make when summer comes again--
Quaint arabesques in argent, flat and cold,
Like curious Chinese etchings.
Winter
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: Frost-Work
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When the Sultan Shah-Zaman
Goes to the city Ispahan,
Even before he gets so far
As the place where the clustered palm-trees are,
At the last of the thirty palace-gates
The pet of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom,
Orders a feast in his favorite room--
Glittering square of colored ice,
Sweetened with syrup, tinctured with spice,
Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates,
Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces,
Limes and citrons and apricots,
And wines that are known to Eastern princes.
Eating
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan
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If my best wines mislike thy taste,
And my best service win thy frown,
Then tarry not, I bid thee haste;
There's many another Inn in town.
Hospitality
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: Quits
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We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed
The white of their leaves, the amber grain
Shrunk in the wind,--and the lightning now
Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.
Rain
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: Before the Rain
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October turned by maple's leaves to gold;
The most are gone now; here and there one lingers;
Soon these will slip from the twig's weak hold,
Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.
October
Quotes, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Source: Maple Leaves
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