Bryan Procter Quotes
1787–1874 England
Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) (November 21, 1787 – October 5, 1874) was an English poet, and father of Adelaide Anne Procter.
Also known as: Bryan W. Procter, Bryan Waller Procter, Procter, Bryan, Barry Cornwall
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I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.
Pity speaks to grief
More sweetly than a band of instruments.
All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.
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Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue;
A string which hath no discord.
Within the midnight of her hair,
Half-hidden in its deepest deeps.
The sea! the sea! the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
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,
And silence wheresoe’er I go.
So mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!