Bryan Procter Quotes

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• I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below,…
• The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
• Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
• Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.
• I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
• Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
• The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
• So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
• Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
• I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.
• Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.
• Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now…
• The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide…
• Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the…
• O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
• Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
• Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.
• All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

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