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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
Learn to live, and live to learn,Ignorance like a fire doth burn,
Little tasks make large return. — Bayard Taylor
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
— Bayard Taylor
So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
— Bayard Taylor
He teaches best,Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast,
And knows their strength or weakness through his own. — Bayard Taylor
My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
— Bayard Taylor
The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one,In the slow process of the doubtful years. — Bayard Taylor
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
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
— Bayard Taylor
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
— Bayard Taylor
Peace the offspring is of Power.
— Bayard Taylor
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
— Bayard Taylor
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
The loving are the daring.
— Bayard Taylor
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
— Bayard Taylor
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
— Bayard Taylor
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
— Bayard Taylor
Labor, you know, is prayer.
— Bayard Taylor
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
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
— 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.
— Bayard Taylor
To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.
— Bayard Taylor
'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
But still I dream that somewhere there must beThe spirit of a child that waits for me. — Bayard Taylor
Love's humility is love's true pride.
— Bayard Taylor
There may come a dayWhich crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth,
And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth! — Bayard Taylor
Life lives only in success.
— Bayard Taylor
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
— Bayard Taylor
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
— Bayard Taylor
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
— Bayard Taylor
The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.
— Bayard Taylor
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
The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
— Bayard Taylor
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
— Bayard Taylor
The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
— Bayard Taylor
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few,And soon the grassy coverlet of God
Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. — Bayard Taylor
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
— Bayard Taylor
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old — Bayard Taylor
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
— Bayard Taylor
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
— Bayard Taylor
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.
— Bayard Taylor
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.
— Bayard Taylor
I know I amthat simplest bliss
The millions of my brothers miss.
I know the fortune to be born,
Even to the meanest wretch they scorn. — Bayard Taylor
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
— Bayard Taylor
The hollows are heavy and dankWith the steam of the Goldenrods. — Bayard Taylor
The knowledge of my sinIs half-repentance. — Bayard Taylor
Love is better than Fame.
— Bayard Taylor