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Quotes from The New Day — Richard Watson Gilder

1844–1909 United States

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5 quotes

Heaven from the hopeless doubter
The true believer makes:
Against the darkness outer
The light God's likeness takes.

The New Day (1875)

Through love to light! Oh wonderful the way
That leads from darkness to the perfect day!

The New Day (1875)

The Smile of her I love is like the dawn
Whose touch makes Memnon sing:
O, see where wide the golden sunlight flows—
The barren desert blossoms as the rose!

The New Day (1875)

Not from the whole wide world I chose thee—
Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea!
The wide, wide world could not inclose thee,
For thou art the whole wide world to me.

The New Day (1875)

I love her doubting and anguish;
I love the love she withholds;
I love my love that loveth her
And anew her being moulds.

The New Day (1875)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Watson Gilder (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.