James Grahame quotes

“A second blow of many flowers appears, flowers faintly tinged and breathing no perfume; but fruits, not blossoms, form the woodland wreath that circles Autumn's brow.”
-- James Grahame

Source : Henry Kirke White, James Grahame (1856). “The poetical works of Henry Kirke White and James Grahame. With memoirs, diss. and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.247

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“How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.”
-- James Grahame

Source : Henry Kirke White, James Grahame (1856). “The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White and James Grahame”, p.216

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“Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.”

“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”

Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72

“Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.”

Source : Alamgir Hashmi (1992). “Sun and moon, and other poems”

“Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.”

Source : 1962 Poems forAll theAnnettes,'Pause' (revised1968).

“Deep inside, we're still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America's fields.”

“The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of stone,The long hotel, acutely white,Against the after-sunset lightWithers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.”

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”

“I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.”

Source : Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1903, Del Rey

“Let's blow some stuff up.”

“Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.”