Robert Williams Buchanan quotes
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“I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, As busy as the elfin world can be, Clothing a world asleep with fleecy lawn.”
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“All that is beautiful shall abide, All that is base shall die.”
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“Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.”
-- Robert Williams BuchananSource : Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11
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“The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.”
-- Robert Williams BuchananSource : Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.211
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“Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.”
-- Robert Williams BuchananSource : Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11
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“Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!”
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“Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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