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Quotes from The Symphony — Sidney Lanier

1842–1881 United States

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O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!
The time needs heart — 'tis tired of head.

The Symphony (1875)

And yet shall Love himself be heard,
Though long deferred, though long deferred:
O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:
Music is Love in search of a word.

The Symphony (1875)

Attribution

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