| 36 Famous Quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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“In her eyes a thought
Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn,
A mystical forewarning.”
Eyes Quotes Source: Pythagoras
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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 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 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 Source: Identity
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“Night is a stealthy, evil Raven,
Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.”
Night Quotes Source: Day and Night
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“Upon the cunning loom of thought
We weave our fancies, so and so.”
Thought Quotes Source: Cloth of Gold--Prelude
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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 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 Source: A Shadow of the Night
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“Good night! I have to say good night,
To such a host of peerless things!”
Parting Quotes Source: Palabras Carinosas
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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 Source: Palabras Carinosas
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“What probing deep
Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?”
Sleep Quotes Source: Human Ignorance
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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 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 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 Source: When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan
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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 Source: Hospitality
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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 Source: Quits
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“Have you not heard the poets tell
How came the dainty Baby Bell
Into this world of ours?”
Babyhood Quotes Source: Baby Bell
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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 Source: Before the Rain
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“Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven
That from the East glad message brings.”
Day Quotes Source: Day and Night
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“Only the sea intoning,
Only the wainscot-mouse,
Only the wild wind moaning
Over the lonely house.”
December Quotes Source: December
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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 Source: Maple Leaves
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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 Source: May
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“We weep when we are born,
Not when we die!”
Tears Quotes Source: Metempsychosis
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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 Source: Two Moods
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“Or light or dark, or short or tall,
She sets a springe to snare them all:
All's one to her--above her fan
She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.”
Coquetry Quotes Source: Quatrains--Coquette
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