Quote

The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.

Bayard Taylor

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
Critic
Diplomat
Explorer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Translator
Writer
Moon
Misty
Wind
Foam
Free
Tune
Light
Tunes
Flying
Clouds
Across
Wintry
Sea
Shrouds

More quotes by Bayard Taylor

Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
Bayard Taylor
Image
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
Bayard Taylor
Image
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
Bayard Taylor
Image
We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
Bayard Taylor
Image
Alone each heart must cover up its dead Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
Bayard Taylor
Image
The bravest are the most tender the loving are the daring.
Bayard Taylor
Image
The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Peace the offspring is of Power.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
Bayard Taylor
Image
The Prophet's words were true The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
Bayard Taylor
Image
But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Labor, you know, is prayer.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
Bayard Taylor
Image
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
Bayard Taylor
Image
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
Bayard Taylor