Quotes by Bayard Taylor - Page 2

But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Moon
Night
Stars
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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 / Poet
Ocean
Running
Space
Race
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I know I am--that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Bliss
Brother
Missing
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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Lessons
Pointing
Perform
Observations
Suggest
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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 / Poet
Clouds
Light
Moon
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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 / Poet
Baltimore
Cities
Two
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In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Afar
Emotion
Glory
Palestine
Soil
Hallowed
Sites
Tread
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'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 / Poet
Columns
Marble
Monumental
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With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Children
Dark
Spring
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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 / Poet
Beautiful
Healing
Stars
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I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Dog
Helplessness
Moving
Yearning
Indeed
Understands
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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.
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Different
Firsts
Manners
Midst
Novelty
People
Time People Stand
Agreeable
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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 / Poet
Antiquity
Cities
Foundation
Tradition
World
Although
Considered
Beyond
Date
Relic
Near
Oldest
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Ancient
Apollo
Athlete
Ethiopia
Race
Sculpture
Symmetry
Tribes
Arab
Nearest
Saxon
Supply
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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.
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Dream
Fate
Sky
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Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.
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Desperate
Imitation
Attempts
Drove
Memory
Powers
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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 / Poet
Irresistible
Mind
Mountain
Past
Stirring
Legend
Ruin
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The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Blood
Fire
Heart
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Berlin
Museums
Sake
Alexander
Galleries
Operas
Speaking
Theaters
Visit
Von
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Broken
Germany
Other Countries
Sides
Unity
Attached
Histories
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Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.
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Hope
Night
Past
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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Confidence
Honesty
Sweden
Board
Degree
Towards
Hotels
Inland
Strangers
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The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Branches
Division
Human Family
Tribes
Germans
Greeks
Romans
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Ascent
Christ
Deities
Footsteps
Heat
Human Form
Olives
Conceive
Deity
Mount
Utterly
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Belief
Childhood
Desire
Early Childhood
Enthusiastic
Fancy
Long
Old World
Visiting
Behold
Childhood World Me
Cherished
Haunted
Wandered
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Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
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Mirrors
Self
Summer
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The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
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Flames
Rain
Rocks
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Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,-- Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,-- Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Blue
Color
Tree
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Home
Concerned
Display
Female
Loveliness
Models
Mountain
Perfect
Purity
Venus
Descended
Preserved
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Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.
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Love
Spring
Summer
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When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Fire
Land
Purple
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The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Asia
Excellent
Lofty
Race
Superiority
Among
Appears
Somewhere
Beginning
Original
Central
Mountains
Meaning
Neighboring
Races
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Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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Architecture
Beautiful
Delicate
East
Execution
Finest
Flower
Gothic
Lightness
Scotland
Surprising
Remaining
Specimen
Windows
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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.
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Wisdom
Doors
Dying
Tasks
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I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Blue
Bohemia
Country
Disappointed
Entering
Eye
Land
Lovely
Ruins
Scenery
Sweetest
Valleys
Gratify
Pleasantly
Uninteresting
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I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
All Things
Beautiful
Envy
Eye
Hands
Human Body
Models
Crown
Daily
Delivered
Produced
Types
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I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Accounts
Affected
Assuming
Awe
Cases
Devotional
Emotion
Indulge
Jerusalem
Reverence
Assume
Describe
Emotions
Forced
Me Feel Emotions
Several
Strike
Travellers
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Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Chance
First Impression
Gothic
Impression
Light
Lofty
Long
Notre Dame
Religious
Scene
Solemn
Streets
Walking
Within
Above
Came
Cathedral
Ceiling
First
Dame
Far
Head
Shall
Stained
Windows
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Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
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War
Bloodshed
Crime
Deluge
Desolate
Hands
Mountain
Shore
Torn
Towers
Mountains
Guard
Hurl
Laid
Mar
Spared
Swept
Valley
Waves
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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Arkansas
California
County
Dialect
Illinois
Missouri
Native
Texas
Life Man Long
Altogether
Short
Northern
Ours
Phrase
Plains
Soon
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True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
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Boundless
Dazzling
Overlooking
Realization
Splendor
Sublime
World
Picture
Behold
Carried
Dreamed
Forest
Oriental
Slope
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The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
Bayard Taylor / Poet
Characteristics
Coarse
Dark
Differences
Eye
Harsh
Latter
Native
Palestine
Prominent
Traits
Jewish
Cheek
Jaw
Jews
Marked
Nose
Possess
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The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which he learns to sing; They are the wind, the harp is he, To voice their fitful melody,-- The language of their varying fate, Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,-- The talisman which holds inwrought The touchstone of the listener's thought; That penetrates each vain disguise, And brings his secret to his eyes.
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Hate
Lying
Spring
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