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From Quotes by Bayard Taylor
- From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
- 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…
- Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.
- The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.
- 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…
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