Henry Timrod quotes
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“Ah me! why may not love and life be one?”
-- Henry TimrodSource : Henry Timrod (2007). “The Collected Poems of Henry Timrod: A Variorum Edition”, p.79, University of Georgia Press
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“Spring is a true reconstructionist.”
-- Henry TimrodSource : Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.49
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“Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.”
-- Henry TimrodSource : Henry Timrod (2007). “The Collected Poems of Henry Timrod: A Variorum Edition”, p.38, University of Georgia Press
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“There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned”
-- Henry TimrodSource : Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.210
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“Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.”
-- Henry TimrodSource : Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.131
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“And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.”
-- Henry TimrodSource : Henry Timrod, “Charleston”
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“Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!There is no holier spot of groundThan where defeated valor lies,By mourning beauty crowned!”
-- Henry TimrodSource : Henry Timrod, “Ode:Sung On The. Occasion Of Decorating The Graves Of The Confederate Dead”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation
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Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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“Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.8, Courier Corporation
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“The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.”
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