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Bayard Taylor Quotes

1825–1878 United States

Bayard Taylor (11 January 1825 – 19 December 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat.

United States
19th-century poets
Journalists
Novelists
Poets

Also known as: Taylor, Bayard

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Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest
Your truth and valor wearing:
The bravest are the tenderest,—
The loving are the daring.

The Song of the Camp (1856)

Knowledge alone is the being of Nature,
Giving a soul to her manifold features,
Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness,
The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.

Kilimandjaro (1852)

If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break
In music, sweeter than it ever gave,
As when a breeze breathes o'er some sleeping lake,
And laughs in every wave.

The Return of the Goddess (1850)

And yonder fly his scattered golden arrows,
And smite the hills with day.

The Poet's Journal (1863)

Thunder-spasms the waking be
Into Life from Apathy:
Life, not Death, is in the gale, —
Let the coming Doom prevail!

The Poet's Journal (1863)

The hollows are heavy and dank
With the steam of the Goldenrods.

The Guests of Night (1871)

Shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.

Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few,
And soon the grassy coverlet of God
Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.

Each separate star
Seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars
Break up the Night, and make it beautiful.

Once let the Angel blow! —
A peal from the parted heaven,
The first of seven!

As a new-born soul, — I am naught:
My deeds are dust in air.

The Guests of Night (1871)

Pardon, not wrath, is God's best attribute.

For love's humility is Love's true pride.

Higher than the perfect song
For which love longeth,
Is the tender fear of wrong,
That never wrongeth.

Fame is what you have taken,
Character's what you give;
When to this truth you waken,
Then you begin to live.

There may come a day
Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth,
And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!

Love's history, as Life's, is ended not
By marriage.

Peace the offspring is of Power.

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.

Learn to live, and live to learn,
Ignorance like a fire doth burn,
Little tasks make large return.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bayard Taylor (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.