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From the shaken tower A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour.
Alice Meynell
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Alice Meynell
Age: 75 †
Born: 1847
Born: September 22
Died: 1922
Died: November 27
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Barnes
England
Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson
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With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.
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Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.
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She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.
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Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.
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O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet.
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... I am dark but fair, / Black but fair.
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The traveling heart went free / With endless streams that strife was stopped / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.
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Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
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A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.
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