Quotes from The Guests of Night — Bayard Taylor
1825–1878 United States
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The hollows are heavy and dank
With the steam of the Goldenrods.
The Guests of Night (1871)
As a new-born soul, — I am naught:
My deeds are dust in air.
The Guests of Night (1871)
I am bare
As a new-born soul, — I am naught:
My deeds are dust in air,
My words are ghosts of thought.
I ride through the night alone,
Detached from the life that seemed,
And the best I have felt or known
Is less than the least I dreamed.
The Guests of Night (1871)
All, wherein I have part,
All that was loss or gain, Slips from the clasping heart,
Breaks from the grasping brain. Lo, what is left? I am bare
As a new-born soul, — I am naught:
My deeds are dust in air,
My words are ghosts of thought.
I ride through the night alone,
Detached from the life that seemed,
And the best I have felt or known
Is less than the least I dreamed.
The Guests of Night (1871)